Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:01:47 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/76260: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 installation failure Message-ID: <20050119170147.GA5830@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <16878.37150.483195.16826@gromit.timing.com> References: <200501191634.j0JGYRmI035360@freefall.freebsd.org> <16878.37150.483195.16826@gromit.timing.com>
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:55:58AM -0700, John E Hein wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote at 16:34 GMT on Jan 19, 2005:
> > Synopsis: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 installation failure
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: kensmith
> > State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 19 16:32:13 GMT 2005
> > State-Changed-Why:
> >
> > Another piece of the -current Linux kernel emulation was MFCed to
> > RELENG_4 yesterday that seems to fix this. Scott has confirmed
> > it fixed the problem for him. I'll merge it into RELENG_4_11
> > before the release.
>
> Will the addition of the extra syscall arg possibly break older linux
> base installs when running with a 4.11 kernel?
I'm hoping not. But we're at a point I don't think we have much of
a choice. The older Linux base installs have been declared a security
risk which was why the push for linux_base-8 to begin with.
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Ken Smith
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