Linux 2.2.4

Phaid writes "As if you weren't already being flooded about this, linux 2.2.4 is out. Here's the official Announcement from The Man Himself. There's a small problem with BSD Process Accounting that can be easily fixed with the patch. " You know the routine-go get'em.

Comments

Error and fix

[korpiq]

The next mail in that thread said following, and guess what? At least I had to apply that patch to get it to compile. Assume a 2.2.4-oops soon as The Man returns from vacation.


Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:35:04 -0500
From: Arvind Sankar

acct.c: In function `sys_acct':
acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close'

Should the second parameter be NULL? (guessing wildly after looking at binfmt*)

Yes, here is the fix

--- linux/kernel/acct.c.~1~ Tue Mar 23 16:14:01 1999
+++ linux/kernel/acct.c Tue Mar 23 16:34:55 1999
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@
}
if (old_acct) {
do_acct_process(0,old_acct);
- filp_close(old_acct);
+ filp_close(old_acct, NULL);
}
out:
unlock_kernel();
return error;
out_err:
- filp_close(file);
+ filp_close(file, NULL);
goto out;
}