vm86 system call update
Jakub Jelinek
jakub@redhat.com
Wed Dec 3 00:09:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:04:48PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > -vm86 - vm86 i:p __vm86 vm86
> > +vm86old EXTRA vm86old i:p __vm86old vm86@GLIBC_2.0
> > +vm86 - vm86 i:ip __vm86 vm86@GLIBC_2.3.3
>
> This generates wrong code for very old kernels which name have no
> vm86old (and name the old version vm86). We can bump the minimum kernel
> requirement, I'd have no problem with that.
That is only about the kernel headers you compile glibc against.
I doubt glibc would build against say 2.2.x kernel headers but I see
no reason why it shouldn't work on 2.2.5 kernel.
Jakub
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