Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

From: Grzegorz Kulewski
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 19:56:21 EST


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

# fs/binfmt_elf.c
# 2005/01/17 13:37:56-08:00 ecd@xxxxxxxxx +43 -19
# [SPARC64]: Missing user access return value checks in fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/compat.c
#

I think so. For a short period we applied this patch to the Gentoo 2.6.10
kernel...

http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources/release-10.01/dist/1900_umem_catch.patch

...but removed it once users complained it stopped kylix binaries from running.

Bah. That's what happens when you fix stuff.

What's kylix? The Borland C++ builder thing?

Rather Delphi (== Object Pascal) thing.


How should one set about reproducing this problem?

IIRC, Some minimal "personal" version can be downloaded from borland.com.



Grzegorz Kulewski
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