[PATCH] [BZ #19408] Fix linux personality syscall wrapper
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Wed Dec 30 03:04:00 GMT 2015
On 30 Dec 2015 03:26, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 06:50:07PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i guess the commit could use clarification here.
>
> The subject is tricky and the commit is quite lengthy already.
> What would you like to be clarified?
/* Starting with kernel commit v2.6.29-6609-g11d06b2, the personality syscall
never fails. However, 32-bit kernels might flag valid values as errors, so
we need to reverse the error setting. We can't use the raw result as some
arches split the return/error values. */
-mike
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