On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:26:32AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Karel Zak wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:45:04PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > > > basically a wrapper for the 'personality' syscall renaming it to
> > > > 'personality', 'setpers' or similar would probably make sense.
> > >
> > > Well, you're right that 'setpers' is probably better name, but I
> > > think it's too late for this change. The command is already on many
> > > places (scripts, distributions, ...).
> >
> > You could add a compatability symlink where it's needed. SUSE Linux
> > for example never had setarch, only 'linux32'.
>
> linux32 isnt the only one (ppc, sparc, and mips all have their own), ive just
> been creating all of them in Gentoo
Why? I think one generic command (setarch) is better than gang of
small commands, especially if you duplicate almost all code in
linux32, ppc, sparc, and mips commands.
Karel
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