Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-13 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:56:49PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > A question which comes to my curious mind... is there a way a program > > running as root can ask the kernel things like "do you support modules and > > module versioning?" or is the above script which hung my machine without >

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > A question which comes to my curious mind... is there a way a program > running as root can ask the kernel things like "do you support modules and > module versioning?" or is the above script which hung my machine without > so much as an oops from 2.1.82 till 2.1.89 the

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-13 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:23:41AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > Please do not use force unless you understand what you are > > doing, and also understand that others may not be able to help > > recover a hosed system. > > Agreed, and thank you for the information. I now understand how th

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-13 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 11:38:18PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > Also, I now see what you ment by your "ticking time-bomb" comment. If you > change the symlinks, user programs are no longer in sync with glibc. This > can, as Linus pointed out in your quoted text, cause "interesting" > failures

Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33

1998-04-13 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:28:15AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Congratulations! You have just introduced a subtle bug on your > system. It may work, and possibly never cause a problem, but > there is a bomb ticking away, waiting to explode ;-) Which bug is that? If it's really tha