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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 03:09:43PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

> [0] Ralf, is there any specific reason mips keeps defining its own
> _IOC_SIZEBITS ?

History.  The ABI once upon a time was meant to be compatible the existing
commercial MIPS UNIX flavours.  Today that's just historical baggage.

  Ralf