Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH v2] um: Do not rely on libc to provide modify_ldt()

2015-07-28 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > Richard, might I ping you about this one? > > Reading other mails on this ML, I reckon' you're quite busy - no > problem, it's not really critical anyway. Just want to make sure the > updated patch got noticed. Thanks for the hea

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH v2] um: Do not rely on libc to provide modify_ldt()

2015-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, Richard, might I ping you about this one? Reading other mails on this ML, I reckon' you're quite busy - no problem, it's not really critical anyway. Just want to make sure the updated patch got noticed. Thanks, -hwh Am 2015-06-29 11:50, schrieb Hans-Werner Hilse: > modify_ldt() was decla

[uml-devel] [PATCH v2] um: Do not rely on libc to provide modify_ldt()

2015-06-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
modify_ldt() was declared as an external symbol. Despite the man page for this syscall telling that there is no wrapper in glibc, since version 2.1 there actually is, so linking to the glibc works. Since modify_ldt() is not a POSIX interface, other libc implementations do not always provide a wrap