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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:29:35 -0600 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, caszonyi@...link.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Merge window closed: v2.6.19-rc1 Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu> writes: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:05:14PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> That code if it gets -ENOSYS reads /proc/sys/kernel/version, >> and it has worked this way since the day it was written. > > What happens if /proc is not mounted (e.g. in a chrooted environment)? glibc decides we aren't a SMP system so it's mutex locks don't busy wait, and go to sleep immediately. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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