Re: Linux has a broken shutdown syscall!

Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:05:19 -0700 (PDT)


>
> Hmm. This is going to be tricky for Perl to deal with. I imagine we can
> safely assume that 2.0.x kernels are going to be in widespread use for
> quite a while (since they generally work so well). I could have Perl's
> Configure detect and deal with this at build time, but since it is common
> for folks to distribute Linux binaries, we can't assume that perl will
> always run on the same kernel under which it was built.
>
> I'm open to suggestions.

Do the 'uname' system call and look at the version number at runtime. Have 2
configuration variables which contain the shutdown states. If you detect
strncmp(utsname.release,"2.0",3)==0 then set it up for the munge, else
make it right. This can all just be an #ifdef to please the clean code guys.

>
> Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu

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