On Monday 18 June 2007, Karel Zak wrote: > 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? historical baggage > 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. when i said "create" i meant "symlink" ... the only real thing there is setarch, plus it already handles this ... `setarch foo XXX` behaves the same as `foo XXX` due to argv scanning in it -mike
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