Re: clone() and pthread_create() segment fault in 2.4.29

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Mar 22 2005 - 04:31:54 EST


On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:31:22PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:07:21 +0100, Arjan van de Ven said:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:54:10AM -0700, jmerkey wrote:
>
> > > which 2.4 kernels will work properly on RH ES release 3, Taroon Update 4.
> >
> > Only kernels with NPTL in, which for 2.4 limits you to the RH supplied one.
>
> Well, strictly speaking, it's all GPL'ed, so Jeff is certainly free to take
> the .src.rpm of the RedHat kernel, use rpm2cpio to extract the NPTL patches
> from it, and forward port it to the 2.4.NN of his choice...

oh of course. I didn't actually consider that since it'd be a LOT of work
(speaking from experience). It could easily be 4 to 6 weeks full time work
to get the thing working well. Seriously NotFunny(tm).
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