Re: patches for 1.3.71 w/iBCS

Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:36:05 +0200

Tom Grigg: "patches for 1.3.71 w/iBCS" (Mar 6, 15:17):
> As many of you have noticed, the 1.3.71 kernel breaks iBCS. Below are
> some patches to correct this problem, both for the kernel and iBCS itself.
> The diffs for iBCS were taken against the February 1st release of version
> 1.3, which can be found at
> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA/ibcs2/ibcs-1.3-960201.tar.gz

I'd suggest copying the "create_aout_tables()" function into the iBCS2
code, because it should really be a per-binfmt thing (that way I can
also remove the test for "ibcs" in the kernel create_aout_tables())

Linus