Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:12:36 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_uid16.c Message-ID: <20010901161236.C13047@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20010901150143.A57116@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200109011811.f81IBjU25855@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010901150143.A57116@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:01:43PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > marcel 2001/09/01 11:11:45 PDT > > > > Added files: > > sys/compat/linux linux_uid16.c > > Log: > > Speculatively add this file. It's part of the Linuxulator update > > to make it emulate Linux kernel version 2.4.2, which is required > > in order to upgrade the linux_base port to RH 7.1. > > > > Note that this file is only needed for 32-bit architectures. To > > us this means i386 (for now?) > > But what does it do? It provides support of the 16-bit uid_t and gid_t based syscalls. Linux now has a new set of syscalls that work with 32-bit uid_t and gid_t. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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