From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call (v2)
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:52:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca88add3-881a-4d0c-afc1-b255d60d2163@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=T17GaEMU_PDDvaJ9GVRUtzTZ069AN2yTuX6=rVo6jNO+6oA@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry misunderstood your offlist mail I can cook up an x32 binary easily enough.
Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org> wrote:
>On 2 Aug 2012 00:33, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> > Sorry, you're right. The argument vector needs compatibility
>support.
>> >
>> > This means you need an x32 version of the function
>
>This is why I originally asked you (off-list) whether it was okay to
>omit
>x32 support in the initial patch :)
>
>I have x32 code already, but I don't have the toolchain or glibc to
>test
>it. (Nor the pain tolerance to build the bleeding-edge versions on this
>laptop - unless I really, really need to...)
>
>If you (or someone else with a working x32 toolchain) could build a
>static
>binary from a tiny test program, I could test that code and put it back
>in
>the patch.
>
>Meredydd
--
Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-02 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-01 22:10 Meredydd Luff
2012-08-01 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-01 23:09 ` Meredydd Luff
2012-08-01 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-01 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <CAD=T17GaEMU_PDDvaJ9GVRUtzTZ069AN2yTuX6=rVo6jNO+6oA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-02 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-02 6:55 ` Al Viro
2012-08-02 9:14 ` Meredydd Luff
2012-08-02 10:30 ` Al Viro
2012-08-02 10:51 ` Meredydd Luff
2012-08-09 19:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-09 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
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