[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] sockaddr_ll change for IPoIB interface

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Aug 12 09:24:18 PDT 2005


On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:21:29AM -0700, Tom Duffy wrote:
> I don't want to get into a big debate about this.  If a good solution  
> can be had that will both maintain compatibility and allow for IB, I  
> would welcome that.  On the other hand, most of the interesting apps  
> have broken on Linux in the past few years.  Some examples:
> 
> - Loki games
> - Word Perfect 8
> - Crossover office/plugin
> - java

s/interesting apps/crappy shit that relies on undefined behaviour/

I can still run most of some really old a.out slackware, including
the original doom port on my only x86 box (binfmt_aout complains a lot
about some missing alignment and stuff, though ;))




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