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Bug#349765: linux-2.6.14-2-alpha-generic: please support the prctl syscall



On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:42:06PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:06:00PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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. :)
> >

> Bleh.

> Untested, as I don't have an alpha. arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c already
> contained jazz to check if the various TIF_ were set, they were just
> lacking a convenient way to set things. You probably need to make prctl()
> know which bits to twiddle.

After changing addr to value, compiles fine; prctl -q runs ok now, prctl
--unaligned=signal doesn't have any effect.  You say that it's going to be
the prctl() function in the kernel that needs further tweaks?

Thanks,
-- 
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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