From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263411AbTDGMck (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:32:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263413AbTDGMcj (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:32:39 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:44691 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263411AbTDGMch (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:32:37 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors From: Alan Cox To: Robert Love Cc: Andrew Morton , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1049680078.753.173.camel@localhost> References: <20030406183234.1e8abd7f.akpm@digeo.com> <1049679689.753.170.camel@localhost> <1049680078.753.173.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1049715944.2967.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 07 Apr 2003 12:45:44 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2003-04-07 at 02:47, Robert Love wrote: > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 21:41, Robert Love wrote: > > > I have not yet tracked down what in 2.5 is broken, but Red Hat's kernel > > obviously does not have this flaw. > > I should clarify this. > > I do not know if the flaw is in 2.5. It might be a behavior of Red > Hat's kernel which rpm(8) assumes. I've forwarded the report to the RH RPM maintainer to look into. I know the non NPTL cases are ok because I never run Red Hat kernels except in the install process. If there are subtle NPTL differences anything is of course possible