[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Problem with recent kernel

Alf Wachsmann alfw@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:15:05 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > The latest and greatest kernel will no longer export 'sys_call_table',
> > for reasons which have apparently already been discussed on the
> > kernel mailing list
>
> Of course, if a way isn't also provided to replace setgroups,
> you can't have PAGs anymore.
>
> And this isn't a "recent kernel", it's a recent ac patch, so if you
> don't use ac patches you can at least avoid being screwed for the moment.

Is there a solution in sight for this problem?

Now that Red Hat 7.3 beta 2 is using such an "ac" kernel it would be
nice to have OpenAFS available for that kernel.

-- Alf.

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