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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:51:10 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: how to detect a 32 bit process on 64 bit kernel
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Hello!
Is there a reliable way e.g. on x86-64 (or ia64, or any other
64-bit system), from the char device driver,
to find out that I am running an operation in the context of a 32-bit
task?

If no - would not it make a sence to add e.g. a flag in the
task struct, to make it possible?

Thanks,
MST