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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