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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop O_LARGEFILE from F_GETFL for POSIX compliance
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:45:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040322054512.0333dad8.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040322043454.GL3649@dualathlon.random>

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:34:54 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:


> 32bit archs needs to get O_LARGEFILE in return from getfl (if they set
> it [it's not set implicitly in 32bit archs] they will be able to handle
> it transparently in glibc too, and I believe they really want it). 64bit
> archs not, hence the fix.

If 32bit archs need it then 64bit archs need it too (think 32bit emulated processes
on 64bit jernels)  But I think in practice it doesn't matter, so I would prefer to be 
consistent between 32bit and 64bit.

I don't feel very strongly about this however ...

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-22  4:13 [PATCH] Drop O_LARGEFILE from F_GETFL for POSIX compliance Andi Kleen
2004-03-22  4:29 ` Nicholas Miell
2004-03-22  4:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22  4:45   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-22  5:07     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22  5:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-22  6:14   ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-22  7:04     ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-22  7:09       ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-22  7:08     ` Andrew Morton

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