chown: function not implemented

Lombard, David N dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Mon Dec 10 15:05:14 UTC 2007


On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:10:13PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2007, Lombard, David N wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Agreed, not a busybox issue.  The 0.9.29 uClibc had some compilation problems,
so I've stuck w/ 0.9.28 for the present...

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.



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