Re: linux syscall madvise

2010-01-06 Thread Alex Hornung
Sure, but point is that this won't fix much. You can, if you want to, submit a patch with the relevant code, it's straight forward. Main aim still remains to get LTP running, so all missing syscalls, most of them way more important than madvise, can be identified. Thanks for your effort, Alex

Re: linux syscall madvise

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Hornung
Linux programs. I get this message in dmesg: linux: syscall madvise is obsoleted or not implemented This call is used to tell the kernel what the program plans to do with a region of memory. Values used in Linux but not BSD, according to the man pages, are: MADV_REMOVE: seems to mean the same

Re: linux syscall madvise

2010-01-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:56:43 Alex Hornung wrote: madvise is of no real relevance and is normally not a big deal either. Implementing an empty dummy function will work perfectly fine as it isn't required to do anything. True, but there is a madvise in DFly, so the Linux call can be

linux syscall madvise

2010-01-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
I haven't managed to get ltp running, but I have run some Linux programs. I get this message in dmesg: linux: syscall madvise is obsoleted or not implemented This call is used to tell the kernel what the program plans to do with a region of memory. Values used in Linux but not BSD, according