Subject: Re: Disturbing behaviour on 1.6 without linux emulation
To: <>
From: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/22/2002 16:41:39
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:27:56PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Remove COMPAT_11 and COMPAT_12 from your kernel. The unrecognized ELF
> binaries are run as 'native' ones when these are in kernel (which they
> are by default). The linux ldconfig probably uses some syscall which
> happens to have same number as our settimeofday(2), and gets confused
> by the return value. 
Right, will do that. At least not something horrible has happened to
my running kernel then. So, is it wise to leave these (COMPAT_11 and
COMPAT_12, others?) on by default? At least a comment in GENERIC and/or
a note in man options would be in order? 

Thanks,

Feico.