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- From: martin@cs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
- Subject: Warning: using old stat() call. Recompile binary.
- Message-ID: <martin.721363005@menaik>
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- Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:36:45 GMT
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- My attempts to compile the latest Linux have not been very
- successful. With patch level 4 I get the following error
- several times, for each disk access command I enter:
- Warning: using old stat() call. Recompile binary.
-
- This warning line is found in the fs/stat.c code, in a
- function called "old_stat_call()".
-
- I didn't get this error with patch level 3, assumably because
- I use a Minix file system, and in the patch 3 stat.c code the
- error statement is
- Warning: using old stat() call on bigfs.
-
- Question: what binary/binaries am I to recompile? One problem
- is that I may have pieces from as far back as Linux 0.11.
-
- System characteristics:
- gcc 2.2.2d7, lib4.1, poeigl1.7, admutl1.4, minix file system,
- X11 (I forget which but I am not running it when the errors
- are observed), tcp parts compiled and wd8003 ethernet board
- present and recognized on bootup, lilo boot.
-
- I want patch level 4 so I can start exploring the tcp/ip
- software.
-
- Other errors still not solved, not found with 0.98 but
- introduced with 0.98p3 and 0.98p4:
-
- 1. "* substitution" no longer works. This is not corrected
- by "unset noglob".
-
- 2. The following error notice occurs on all logins (root or
- otherwise) and prevents the login from putting me in the
- home directory. (I can cd to the home directory after,
- no problem.)
- shell-init: getwd: cannot access parent directories.
- The same error occurs occasionally during other disk
- accesses, sometimes without the "shell-init" prefix.
- This is not corrected by "chmod 755 /".
-
- Tim.
-
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- Tim Martin *
- Spatial Information Systems * These opinions are my own:
- University of Alberta * My employer has none!
- martin@cs.ualberta.ca *
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