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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!dingbat
- From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Warning: using old stat() call. Recompile binary.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.221953.12055@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 22:19:53 GMT
- References: <martin.721363005@menaik> <1992Nov10.155049.26567@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <BxIEAB.192@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: dingbat@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 22
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- eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov10.155049.26567@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler) writes:
- >>In article <martin.721363005@menaik>, martin@cs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences) writes:
- >>> 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.
- >>
- >>I have the same problem with pl4. As soon as the system boots
- >>the screen is filled with warning messages "old_stat_call(). Recompile binary"
-
- > I had the same problem. It was the setterm binary, and I just pulled
- >the copy from H.J.'s bootable rootdisk and that solved everything.
-
- I had a really weird one here: I got the stat() message on setterm and
- swapon while booting up. I recompiled both and the problem went away.
- Now I just booted Linux and the stat() messages are back!!!
-
- What gives?
-
- Niels
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