chown: function not implemented

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 07 December 2007, Lombard, David N wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:51:21AM -0800, Lombard, David N wrote:
> > I'm upgrading kboot-11, which usually uses 1.3.1, to 1.8.1.  I've made
> > sure CONFIG_PREFIX is set in .config to the root directory I'm building,
> > set CROSS_COMPILE on the make command to the correct prefix, and made
> > sure my PATH lists my uClibc-enabled gcc first.
> >
> > Despite the, I get the subject error when trying to use chown directly
> > or when trying to log in via ssh.
>
> So, the error turned out to be the kernel option for 16-bit UIDs was
> not set.  Mea culpa.
>
> Is there something in the Makefile or in configure that I missed or could
> have made my error either easier to find (e.g., without trolling through
> system call processing) or even avoidable?
>
> I didn't see any configure options for 16- v. 32-bit UIDs

this is not a busybox issue.  older versions of uClibc did not work when you 
disabled 16bit uid functions in the kernel.  latest uClibc should work fine.
-mike
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