Re: [rfc] epoll interface change and glibc bits ...

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:05:32AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> 1) epoll's event structure extension
> 
> I received quite a few request to extend the event structure to have space
> for an opaque user data object. The eventpoll event structure will turn to
> be :
> 
> struct epollfd {
> 	int fd;
> 	unsigned short int events, revents;
> 	unsigned long obj;

Cannot this be uint64_t obj; ?
Have mercy with 32<->64 bit translation layers in the kernel.

	Jakub