From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add getdents32t syscall
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:36:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040227033630.GB8645@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040226223212.GA31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:32:26PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> (since 1997 or so), so with the extended getdents syscall glibc would need
> to memmove every name by 1 byte.
Glibc will have to have the code to play the memmove game for
compatibility with existing kernels. So the question is whether or
not the memmove by one byte will actually be noticeable for most
application. Has anyone checked to see whether or not it would even
be noticeable on a profiling run?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 19:38 [PATCH] Add getdents32t syscall Jakub Jelinek
2004-02-26 22:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-26 22:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-26 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-26 22:29 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-26 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-26 22:32 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-02-26 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-27 1:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-27 6:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-27 7:05 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-28 23:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-27 1:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-02-27 3:36 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2004-02-29 0:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-27 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
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