Comment 4 for bug 19828

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:56:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:58:02AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Anything specific you're looking for there Steve?
>
> + arm: upgrade doesn't work with 2.2, but can work with 2.4.24 or above.
> (perhaps also with older versions, currently unknown)
> (details: glibc vs kernel, source: kylem, tested on netwinder)
> [*]
>
> > I know the ACL kernel patches fairly well, and nothing has changed for
> > years now so I'd be surprised if a kernel upgrade changed anything.
>
> On the contrary, libacl works sanely on kernels lacking any ACL kernel
> support whatsoever -- this architecture-specific failure more likely points
> to a kernel ABI issue specific to ARM.

Hmmm, it was interesting that a libacl recompile made the problem
go away though, that seemed to me to point toward a compiler type
issue rather than a kernel/glibc issue.

cheers.

--
Nathan