Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 12:50:52 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:09:02AM -0600, James Bourne wrote:
> will need to be looked at as these are ones which contain references to
> SUBVERSION... References to EXTRAVERSION also reside in these files. It
> would just be better to do the "right thing" IMHO.

Note that EXTRAVERSION is not numeric. A kernel version string can be
like:

2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2

which definitely is not numeric. Anything which assumes it is would be
broken.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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