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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Narendra Prasad Madanapalli <narendramind@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit rlimits
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728202526.GO9378@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728153029.GA14188@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:30:29PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Having in-kernel 32-bit AND 64-bit rlimits is plain wrong, sorry.

For backwards compatibility reasons, if we want to support 64-bit
rlimits on an 32-bit x86 architectures, it is inevitable.  It is the
only correct way to do things.

	      	     	 		      - Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 15:21 akpm@osdl.org,mtk.manpages@gmail.com Narendra Prasad Madanapalli
2008-07-28 15:30 ` 64-bit rlimits Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-28 20:25   ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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