Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.14-7 So unaligned traps in kernel logs are a frequent complaint on debian-alpha, and it's a PITA to turn these into real bug reports against the programs responsible because there's no tool in the archive to let you change the kernel handling of the unaligned traps; instead, people end up passing around C snippets that do the job. Having seen the nice prctl package, which is currently ia64-only, I decided to see if I could get it to compile on alpha. Lo and behold, it seems that /usr/include/linux/prctl.h (from linux-kernel-headers) is a nice, generic header that defines a nice, generic prctl() syscall that can be used for adjusting unaligned trap handling. Hurray! But, um... it doesn't work. prctl(0x5, 0x11fd45610, 0x120001bb2, 0x1200122b8, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) So please make it work; knowing this exists and should be supported, I'm not willing to hack up prctl's source to use __NR_osf_setsysinfo instead. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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