On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, David Peet wrote:

> The problem with at least certain distributions 2.2.19 kernel is that the task 
>structure
> was modified to in such a way that any module that uses the "suser()" inline function
> and was compiled on different system, will have the suser() function malfunction.
> When this function malfunctions, the result in the Win4Lin module is
> that you will get this "IMPROPER_INSTL" error.  The only thing that can be done
> for now is to modify the task structure so it works in a back-wards complatible
> way and rebuild the kernel.  Win4Lin 3.0 was changed to not use "suser()" because

I haven't tried with a 'stock' 2.2.19 kernel, but another possible
workaround could be to build with SMP support.  Anybody care to confirm or
deny?


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