Hello Chris, Thursday, July 04, 2002, 2:52:59 PM, you wrote:
CJ> This is caused by the default alignment changing from 4 bytes to 8 bytes, as CJ> far as i can tell. Basically the size of structure passed to the NT system CJ> calls is not the size of structure the call expects, so it fails and the CJ> program (top, uptime, etc.) gets stuck in a loop trying to read data. CJ> I did add macros to ntdll.h to make sure the structures were aligned CJ> correctly, but then Chris changed the alignment back so I removed them. I CJ> shall let Chris comment on this. Well there is definitely more then NT calls failing. uptime -V should print the version and exit - but it doesn't. The strace ouput seems very close to the one produced without the -V option. The same happens even if an unrecognized options is passed.
