Re: [PATCH] no TIOCSBRK/TIOCCBRK in ia32 emulation on amd64

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 03:25:00 EST


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:07:05PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> In ia32 emulation, the amd64 kernel refuses the ioctls TIOCSBRK
> and TIOCCBRK with EINVAL. I've attached a patch that adds them to
> the compatibility list.
>
> Since all architectures have these ioctls ("m68knommu" inherits
> them from "m68k", "um" from its host) and use the same code, I
> think adding them to compat_ioctl.h is the correct choice (as
> opposed to adding them to arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_ioctl.c).
>
> The patch is for 2.6.9. I've observed the problem the first time
> in 2.6.7.

Thanks, looks good.

-Andi
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