On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Stephen Brown wrote:
> Hi Xiamin,
> 
> How old are your "userland" binaries???  If I remember correctly, I 
> had a similar problem multiple months back.  But, it was because my
> copy of "reboot" was much older than my running kernel.  If you look
> at the source code for "reboot", it just calls the "reboot()" system
> call.  Again, IIRC this system call changed significantly with one
> of the early 1.2* releases.  I haven't seen this problem for a long
> time, so I may be misremembering, but it was worth a mention.  If you
> go to recompile "reboot", make sure you have the latest kernel libraries,
> include files, etc.
> 
> If you have recent binaries installed, then I'm not sure what the
> problem is.  If that happens, then try a new "GENERIC" kernel,
> or let me know and I'll compile another one for you to try.
> 
> Steve Brown,
> sbrown@best.com
> 
> p.s.  I know that "reboot()" changed from system call #55 to system
> 	call #208 sometime between 1.1 and -current.  But, just when
> 	that was, I don't remember.   I think there may have been
> 	other changes as well(the arguments to the system call,
> 	perhaps??).
> 
Ok, my userland binaries are fomr a snapshot from April, I think...
In any case, they're synced with MADHATTER #40, my current kernel.
Xiamin