linux-kernel - UNAME26 personality must take 4.X in account

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Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:03:18 -0300
From:	Marco Costa <costa.marco@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: UNAME26 personality must take 4.X in account

Hi, all.

I saw a comment on LWN, that I quote:

"Posted Feb 23, 2015 10:28 UTC (Mon) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)

Note that if you have a program which gets confused by the 3.x kernel
version, and are using the UNAME26 personality to make it see 2.6.40+x
instead of 3.x, the version number as seen by that program just jumped
backwards to 2.6.40. See override_release() at kernel/sys.c."

I believe he is correct. Unfortunately I cannot work on a patch for it
right now.

Marco
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