Re: rlimit changes

[Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

|> [linux only]
|> 
|> I had to modify the changes Andreas made for the rlimit stuff.  They
|> have to be in 32-bit platform specific directories.  I know that
|> currently the kernel has the change of the constants in a shared file
|> but this will change since rth only yesterday found out that this
|> change was made and he didn't like it (not copatible with OSF).
|> 
|> Besides this for platforms like m68k and probably also Arm the change
|> was not useful as well.  There will be no 4GB address spaces.

Huh? What has this to do with 4GB address spaces?

|> Therefore I've so far enabled the versioning for the rlimit stuff only
|> on x86.  If after the kernel change this is necessary for other
|> platforms as well we still can make appropriate other changes.

*All* platforms have the change in the kernel.  It's platform
*independent*!  You have now broken *all* other platforms!

|> (Oh, I'll start testing the changes in a bit, so don't complain if
|> they don't work).
|> 
|> PS: Now glibc should compile on ALpha again.  This wasn't the case
|> before which was the initial reason why I looked into this.

So why don't you just fix Alpha *without* breaking all others???

Andreas.

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