Patch for powerpc syscall updates

Geoff Keating geoffk@cygnus.com
Thu Jan 27 20:39:00 GMT 2000


> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:16:38 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>

> One thing I can not understand - programs still botch mmap64 calls unless
> recompiled with this patch applied (botch -> mis-pass the arguments, and it
> returns MMAP_FAILED), and I can not see why.  But recompiling against this
> works.

I can't see why either.  Oh well.

> Anything wrong with the patch?
> 
> Also, in linux/powerpc/syscalls.list, the setrlimit line looks a little
> dubious; the rest I've got more or less accounted for now though.

Try 'cvs update'.  I committed a similar but better patch a few hours
ago.  Tell me if it works...

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>


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