[Linux-abi-devel] about linux-abi-2.4.18.0.patch

[<ks...@bi...>]

Hi,

Recently, I tried to upgrade my notebook from linux-2.4.9-abi to
linux-2.4.18-abi. And found the sco development tool 'ld' is broken in
linux-2.4.18-abi. After digging in the problem, I found the mmap function
implementation is different in these two patches.
In linux-2.4.9-abi/abi/sco/sysent.c, svr4_mmap is used;
in linux-2.4.18-abi/abi/sco/sysent.c, sco_mmap is used.

After modifying linux-2.4.18-abi/abi/sco/mmap.c from
	mapaddr = do_mmap(file, addr, len, prot, flags | MAP_FIXED, off);
to
	mapaddr = do_mmap(file, addr, len, prot, flags, off);

the tool 'ld' works again.

Is this modification safe ?

K.S.Chen