Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006 10:49:36 -0500 Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
>> Replace references to system_utsname to the per-process uts namespace
>> where appropriate.  This includes things like uname.
>>
>> Changes: Per Eric Biederman's comments, use the per-process uts namespace
>> 	for ELF_PLATFORM, sunrpc, and parts of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> 9ee063adf4d2287583dbb0a71d1d5f80d7ae011f
>> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c b/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c
>> index 8fdb1fb..4af731d 100644
>> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c
>> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c
>> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_uname(struct old_utsn
>>  	if (!name)
>>  		return -EFAULT;
>>  	down_read(&uts_sem);
>> -	err=copy_to_user(name, &system_utsname, sizeof (*name));
>> +	err=copy_to_user(name, utsname(), sizeof (*name));
> 
> It would be really nice if you would fix spacing while you are here,
> like a space a each side of '='.
> 
> and a space after ',' in the function calls below.

Here's a possible cleanup on top of serge's patchset as found in
2.6.17-rc4-mm3.

C.