ports/76260: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 installation failure

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:55:58AM -0700, John E Hein wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote at 16:34 GMT on Jan 19, 2005:
>  > Synopsis: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 installation failure
>  > 
>  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>  > State-Changed-By: kensmith
>  > State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 19 16:32:13 GMT 2005
>  > State-Changed-Why: 
>  > 
>  > Another piece of the -current Linux kernel emulation was MFCed to
>  > RELENG_4 yesterday that seems to fix this.  Scott has confirmed
>  > it fixed the problem for him.  I'll merge it into RELENG_4_11
>  > before the release.
> 
> Will the addition of the extra syscall arg possibly break older linux
> base installs when running with a 4.11 kernel?

I'm hoping not.  But we're at a point I don't think we have much of
a choice.  The older Linux base installs have been declared a security
risk which was why the push for linux_base-8 to begin with.

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