Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat Aug 27 2011 - 12:35:24 EST


On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > > wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
> > > gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
> > > ./uname26 program
> >
> > I hate to ask, but can you put a proper copyright and license on this
> > file so that distros can distribute it?
>
> I assumed it's too trivial for that.
>
> Anyways I put a GPL license on it now.
>

Hi Andi

I assume the mention of "mcelog" is a cut'n'paste error and that it really
should have been "uname26", so here's a trivial patch to correct that.
I also deleted all trailing whitespace and used EXIT_FAILURE rather than 1
for exit().

Take it or leave it :)

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

--- uname26.c.orig 2011-08-27 18:26:46.538017670 +0200
+++ uname26.c 2011-08-27 18:32:21.032163525 +0200
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2011 Intel Corporation
+/* Copyright (C) 2011 Intel Corporation
Author: Andi Kleen
Set 2.6.x personality

- mcelog is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ uname26 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version
2.

- mcelog is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ uname26 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should find a copy of v2 of the GNU General Public License somewhere
- on your Linux system; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ on your Linux system; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */
#include <sys/personality.h>
#include <stdio.h>
@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@

int main(int ac, char **av)
{
- if (!av[1]) {
+ if (!av[1]) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: uname26 program ...\n"
"Run program with the uname 2.6 personality\n");
- exit(1);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if (personality(PER_LINUX | UNAME26) < 0)
perror("personality"), exit(1);
-
+
execvp(av[1], av + 1);
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot execute %s: %s\n", av[1], strerror(errno));
- exit(1);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}


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