Re: [PATCH} s390x sys32 duplicated code cleanup (was [PATCH RFC] s390x sys32...)

From: Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 02:30:53 EST


Hi Tim,

>Uggh, DaveM pointed out a very good issue with this fix (similar for
>Sparc64) and core files. Core files will now have truncated uid/gid
>values because fs/binfmt_elf calls NEW_TO_OLD_UID(). May be other
>places, too.
>
>I guess you should not apply this patch until I've had a better think
>about it.

Sad but true. And I don't see an easy way around it without changes
to fs/binfmt_elf.c.

blue skies,
   Martin

Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
Schönaicherstr. 220, D-71032 Böblingen, Telefon: 49 - (0)7031 - 16-2247
E-Mail: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com

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