From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA30823 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:34:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:34:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: glibc and kernel update In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Linux MM List-ID: On 25 Jun 1998, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > RR> I still haven't resolved the problems between glibc, the > RR> 2.1 kernel series and pppd :( > > RR> Now I got a new idea: Since most of the kernel interfaces > RR> go through glibc, does this mean that I have to get the > RR> glibc source and recompile the whole thing in order to get > RR> working ppp with a 2.1 kernel? > > Just what problem are you having? Pppd dies with "This kernel doesn't support PPP", while it most certainly _does_. I traced it back to a socket operation which isn't exported properly through glibc... > I just got 2.3.5 to compile with glibc, but I haven't had a chance to > test it yet.. It compiles perfectly. It just doesn't run ;( Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+