From: John Mudd <johnbmudd@gmail.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: musl <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Build on linux 2.6 and run on linux 2.4?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:16:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGDMk9G6m7Td28JP-+isNKHNHPKGsSdfmu8Kjd07YNMcbhyXNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140321195324.GN26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
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You're too modest? Here's what I get when I build a simple C program on 2.6
without musl and try to run on the RH "2.4".
$ test_malloc
FATAL: kernel too old
Segmentation fault
$
$ cat test_malloc.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <memory.h>
#include <assert.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
assert(argc == 2);
int n = atoi(argv[1]);
char *c = malloc(n);
printf("allocated.\n");
memset(c, 0, n);
printf("set.\n");
printf("sleeping...\n");
sleep(60);
return 0;
}
$
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:48:31PM -0400, John Mudd wrote:
> > $ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
> > NPTL 0.60
> > $
> >
> > So that's it, I lucked out? I can start building my apps on a modern
> Linux
> > and still run on my older ones? If so then this is like being told time
> > travel is possible.
>
> Your luck is just that your kernel that claims to be 2.4 is really
> essentially 2.6, so it's not as old as you think it is. My impression
> is that "enterprise" vendors like RH like to stick with the version
> number that was widely known as being stable and reliable at the time,
> and end up applying so many patches/backports/local customizations
> that the old version number is pretty misleading.
>
> Anyway, if your goal is just to be able to run programs on this
> version of RHEL, you should be fine! If you also need to run on other
> old systems that print "2.4" as their version number, you probably
> need to do further research.
>
> Rich
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-21 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-20 20:58 John Mudd
2014-03-20 23:14 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-21 0:51 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-26 6:22 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-21 13:02 ` John Mudd
2014-03-21 16:40 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-21 17:54 ` John Mudd
2014-03-21 18:02 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-21 18:24 ` John Mudd
2014-03-21 19:09 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-21 19:48 ` John Mudd
2014-03-21 19:53 ` Rich Felker
2014-03-21 20:16 ` John Mudd [this message]
2014-03-22 11:12 ` Szabolcs Nagy
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