seg fault on file close, arla-0.12 and linux 2.1.122

[Assar Westerlund]

Dave Morrison <dave at bnl.gov> writes:
> close(3 <unfinished ...>
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

That's most likely caused by the autoconf test for flush failing.
Apply the appended patch, do `autoreconf -f', and do a new build.

/assar


Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/arla/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.165
retrieving revision 1.166
diff -u -w -u -w -r1.165 -r1.166
--- configure.in	1998/09/29 23:15:26	1.165
+++ configure.in	1998/09/30 18:32:19	1.166
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script
 dnl This requires autoconf 2.12
-AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.165 $)dnl
+AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.166 $)dnl
 AC_PREREQ(2.12)
 AC_INIT(arlad/arla.c)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(include/config.h)
@@ -734,10 +734,10 @@
 
 AC_HAVE_KERNEL_STRUCT_FIELD([
 #include <linux/fs.h>
-typedef int (*foo)(struct file *);
+typedef int (*flush_type)(struct file *);
 ],
 file_operations,
-foo,
+flush_type,
 flush)
 
 AC_STRUCT_SOCKADDR_HAS_SA_LEN