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Re: miscellaneous patch questions...


Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> First of all, the ioctl patch I submitted.  Is it acceptable for
> inclusion?  If not, any specific thing I should fix?

I have to look through my backlog.

> Second, chown.  I understand why we do not want to propogate the ugly
> i386 fix to PPC, but without it a glibc built against recent kernel
> headers requires a recent kernel to work.

I told already several times that I don't make this decision for all
ports.  The port maintainer (for PPC I consider this Geoff Keating)
must make the call.

> And last, is there a particular reason why the /usr/bin/ldd shell
> script prints an error message if you do not have execute permissions
> for the file in question?

I've aded code to redirect warnings and error messages to stderr.

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