From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:21:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109888485.11609.18.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050303214622.GA1497@muc.de>
to den 03.03.2005 Klokka 22:46 (+0100) skreiv Andi Kleen:
> > As far as the kernel is concerned, asm/posix_types defines
> > __kernel_ino_t as "unsigned long" on most platforms (except a few which
> > define is as "unsigned int). We don't care what size type glibc itself
> > uses.
>
> That could easily be changed and even pass out 64bit inodes
> on 32bit systems. The stat64 syscall ABI allows this.
>
> Perhaps that should be done and then you could drop the truncation
> code.
That would be the ideal solution. I don't see that the current system of
truncating is helping anyone.
> Of couse this would expose the glibc Bug Bernd ran into on 32bit
> too, but at some point they have to fix that bogosity anyways.
Right.
Cheers,
Trond
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-03 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-28 20:54 Bernd Schubert
2005-02-28 21:00 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 21:07 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 21:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 22:30 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 23:07 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 22:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 22:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 23:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 23:19 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 23:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 23:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-02 8:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-02 9:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-02 11:33 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-02 16:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-02 18:14 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-03 9:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 21:16 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-03 21:32 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 21:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-03 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 22:21 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2005-03-03 9:12 ` Andi Kleen
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