[jhw@wetware.com] libc/1574: semctl variable parameter handling

Mark Kettenis kettenis@wins.uva.nl
Wed Feb 2 10:42:00 GMT 2000


   From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
   Date: 02 Feb 2000 18:34:14 +0100

   Hi glibc developers,

   we've received the appended bug report about a problem on PowerPC.
   Could somebody look into it and send a fix?

IMHO, this is a bug in the Linux kernel.  Could the originator of the
bug report report this to linux-kernel?

The "..." for the fourth argument in the semctl() has been there since
Issue 4 of the X/Open specification.  Until this is fixed in the
kernel, we could provide a wrapper for semctl().

Of course, people who care about about portability to older System V
systems should probably provide the fourth argument.

Mark


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