Re: Libc6 2.1.3-18 broken ?

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:12:16PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > 
> > Uh ? Setresuid has been here for ages...
> 
> Check the /usr/include/bits/syscall.h, it's not there.
> 
> > Plus, glibc contains the prototype for setresuid, it's just a missing
> > symbol in the library...
> 
> The prototype is always there, the syscall is not always there. Check
> /usr/include/linux/ and /usr/include/asm-sparc/, it's not defined
> there, so glibc doesn't define it.

I stand corrected, libc is not broken.

Any idea why linux does not implement setresuid on sparc ?


Phil.