Re: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module

[Eugene Teo]

<quote sender="Felipe Alfaro Solana">
> On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 19:11, M??ns Rullg??rd wrote:
> > Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > After installing VMware Workstation 4.5.0-7174 and running
> > > vmware-config.pl, I get the following error when trying to insert
> > > vmmon.ko into the kernel:
> > >
> > > vmmon: Unknown symbol _exit
> > 
> > I've seen it too.  I just removed that call from the source and
> > rebuilt.  It's not supposed to ever get there anyway.  I still don't
> > understand what it was doing there in the first place.  Oddly, it
> > compiled with kernel 2.6.2, but not with some later updates.
> 
> Yeah! I experienced the same with -mm kernels... It seems the changes
> that motivated that have been integrated in mainline now. For now, I've
> removed any reference to _exit from the module sources.

reverse this patch: 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm5/broken-out/gcc-35-exit-fix.patch

for more info, see http://www.anomalistic.org/#vmware

Eugene

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Eugene TEO -  <eugeneteo%eugeneteo!net>   <http://www.anomalistic.org/>
1024D/14A0DDE5 print D851 4574 E357 469C D308  A01E 7321 A38A 14A0 DDE5
main(i) { putchar(182623909 >> (i-1) * 5&31|!!(i<7)<<6) && main(++i); }

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