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List:       linux-sparc
Subject:    Re: Unaligned accesses in compat_sys_msgrcv and sys_msgrcv
From:       David Miller <davem () davemloft ! net>
Date:       2006-10-23 21:01:15
Message-ID: 20061023.140115.45513727.davem () davemloft ! net
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From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:52:00 -0700

> It turned out that the source of these messages was fakeroot - a 
> Debian utility which wraps a few system calls to create an illusion 
> that the process is running with root privileges. It is commonly used 
> during package builds and uses IPC to communicate with the daemon 
> which tracks the (fake) information about file ownership and 
> permissions.

Thanks Jurij, I knew about fakeroot but not that it used
sysv IPC :-)
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