new linux chown
Richard Henderson
rth@cygnus.com
Wed Jun 10 10:18:00 GMT 1998
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:57:23PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> I thought renaming is necessary to be compatible? On alpha kernel you
> suddenly get new functionality for the same syscall# between different
> kernel versions...
Except that we were already doing the wrong thing, really, for
Digital Unix emulation.
> ... breaking older binary applications (noteably fileutils-3.16).
Curious -- I'm using fileutils-3.16 here and I've never noticed problems.
r~
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