Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:24:34 GMT | From | Daniel Barlow <> | Subject | Re: Current Status |
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>My current solution to get ftape loaded is to calloc(5*1024*1024) and then >run insmod immediately afterwards, but having to do this is a joke. > >Any comments?
Yes. It won't work with the new calloc() in libc 5.3.x --- it just maps a page of zeros, it doesn't actually write to them :-) Ok, the fix is trivial; you have to write something in each page.
A proper fix is also needed for, eg, SVGATextMode (console resizing).
Daniel -- Daniel Barlow, http://ftp.linux.org.uk/~barlow, daniel.barlow@sjc.ox.ac.uk
panic("bad_user_access_length executed (not cool, dude)");
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