Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11

[Richard Henderson]

On 07/22/2013 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
> I wondered if your proposal will break glibc as glibc checks for
> __NR_oldumount and does different things based on that.  But maybe your
> fix will not adversely affect glibc (I did not look particularly closely
> to see if so), but even so, there is no guarantee that other software does
> not directly access the oldumount syscall when compiled on Alpha, and your
> change would likely break any such software.

It won't break glibc.  While there are conditionals for oldumount,
they do pretty much exactly the umount/umount2 dance you'd expect.

I'm for the patch, because anything that makes us match x86 more
closely has got to be a good thing from a portability standpoint.


r~
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