Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:06:36 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Kernel related StarOffice 5.1a problem |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Parto Chobeiry wrote: > > >Has anybody encountered the same problem -- and (maybe) found a > >solution? > > Parto, you can apply this patch against 2.2.13: > > ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.13/java-proc.gz
It tries to access WHAT? Bloody lusers cannot be bothered to use %d in sprintf? Sorry. /proc/<pid>/fd/0<whatever> _never_ had been a documented interface. They already were deep in it with (ab)using glibc guts. And it didn't teach them? They _deserve_ to lose. Who maintains StarrOrifice these days, SunSoft? Sheesh... Andrea, I don't think that kernel should work around the bugs in _that_. Really. Backwards compatibility is nice, but preserving every undocumented quirk that nobody sane would use... Sorry, but we really need an addition to errno.h: EBITEME. Exactly for such cases.
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