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Re: [PATCHES] glibc 2.1, Linux, and chown


Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:

|> Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:
|> 
|> > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10:17:18AM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
|> > > Alpha is different. 
|> > 
|> > At issue is that Alpha didn't go through the same syscall number
|> > changes as everyone else.  We'd been following DU, which already
|> > defined both chown and lchown.
|> 
|> Fair enough.  It's obvious I didn't get the issues right the first
|> time around.
|> 
|> Let me see if I understand this:
|> 
|> Note: 2.1 = 2.1.124 and 2.0 = 2.0.36
|> 
|> Arch    KVer  Syscall                       Behaviour
|> ======  ====  =======                       =========
|> i386/   2.0   16  = __NR_chown              Does not follow symlinks
|> m68k/
|> ppc
|> 
|> i386/   2.1   16  = __NR_lchown             Does not follow symlinks
|> m68k          182 = __NR_chown              Follows symlinks

This is wrong.  On m68k it's just the other way round.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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