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[Chris January]

> Hello Chris,
>
> Thursday, July 04, 2002, 2:52:59 PM, you wrote:
>
> CJ> This is caused by the default alignment changing from 4 bytes to 8
bytes, as
> CJ> far as i can tell. Basically the size of structure passed to the NT
system
> CJ> calls is not the size of structure the call expects, so it fails and
the
> CJ> program (top, uptime, etc.) gets stuck in a loop trying to read data.
> CJ> I did add macros to ntdll.h to make sure the structures were aligned
> CJ> correctly, but then Chris changed the alignment back so I removed
them. I
> CJ> shall let Chris comment on this.
>
> Well there is definitely more then NT calls failing. uptime -V should
> print the version and exit - but it doesn't. The strace ouput seems very
> close to the one produced without the -V option. The same happens even
> if an unrecognized options is passed.
uptime reads the /proc files regardless of what options you pass.

Chris