Fedora Core 5 closed

Fedora Core 5 closed

[Andrew Cagney]

Just FYI, I've closed the Fedora Core 5 tracker, and largely removed the 
fc5 specific checks.

Note however, this doesn't mean that we're free of the pre-utrace 
kernels.  RHEL 4 and other non-utrace systems live on :-)

Re: Fedora Core 5 closed

[Mark Wielaard]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 10:29 -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Just FYI, I've closed the Fedora Core 5 tracker, and largely removed the 
> fc5 specific checks.

Would it make sense to have maintainers for the various platforms we are
interested in, then we can just ask whether someone wants to maintain
such an old platform tracker bug. I am mainly interested in Fedora 6
(x86_64) and Fedora 7 (x86) so I could take those two till I upgrade for
example.

> Note however, this doesn't mean that we're free of the pre-utrace 
> kernels.  RHEL 4 and other non-utrace systems live on :-)

Does that really matter? utrace doesn't have a userspace interface
except though ptrace. If there are any differences in behavior then they
are probably bugs in the ptrace layer. Or is there something else to
watch out for between ptrace/utrace enabled kernels?

Cheers,

Mark

Re: Fedora Core 5 closed

[Andrew Cagney]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 10:29 -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>   
>> Just FYI, I've closed the Fedora Core 5 tracker, and largely removed the 
>> fc5 specific checks.
>>     
>
> Would it make sense to have maintainers for the various platforms we are
> interested in, then we can just ask whether someone wants to maintain
> such an old platform tracker bug. I am mainly interested in Fedora 6
> (x86_64) and Fedora 7 (x86) so I could take those two till I upgrade for
> example.
>   

There are distro specific packagers; but beyond that we should all be 
taking responsibility for the systems we use.

>   
>> Note however, this doesn't mean that we're free of the pre-utrace 
>> kernels.  RHEL 4 and other non-utrace systems live on :-)
>>     
>
> Does that really matter? utrace doesn't have a userspace interface
> except though ptrace. If there are any differences in behavior then they
> are probably bugs in the ptrace layer. Or is there something else to
> watch out for between ptrace/utrace enabled kernels?
>
>   
Sometimes it is a bug, sometimes is is a question of interpretation.  Cf 
KILL you recently asked about.

Andrew