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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: waitid breaks telnet
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I've had no luck reproducing that, so there isn't much I can do.

Did you try bare 2.6.10-rc2?

>  The last
> time someone thought the waitid change broke something random, it was the
> perturbation of the compiled code vs the issue that the kernel's assembly
> code doesn't follow the same calling conventions the compiler expects.

Could be that, but I was able to reproduce it on 2.6.10-rc2 with
gcc-2.95.4, with which -mregparm is disabled.

Still.  It would be interesting if Joe could retest with CONFIG_REGPARM=n?