On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Subrata Modak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:45 -0400, Jeff Burke wrote:
[...]
> There should not be a failure for Build/Install when Kernel is >=
> 2.6.22, when this syscall was introduced. May be we need to check out
> why it failed to build/install.
>
> The know failures are, out of 99 scenarios that Michael was testing,
> roughly 33 of them were failing on 2.6.25.

The long story is here:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-wrong-with-kernel-userland_30.html

> And Michael was working with
> the syscall developer

Actually the original developer was not must to be heard from.  But
Miklos was helpful.

> to get those fixes, and he himself gave some
> fixes.

My set of four patches was merged into 2.6.26-rc9, so everything that
I know of should be fixed Real Soon Now.

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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