From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: 64bit inode numbers
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:55:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160413135511.4e683440@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460499749.6473.601.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:22:29 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> Lets prepare for a possibility to have 64bit inode numbers for sockets,
> even if the kernel currently enforces 32bit numbers.
>
> Presumably, if both kernel and userland are 64bit (no 32bit emulation),
> kernel could switch to 64bit inode numbers soon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Why not use ino_t rather than __u64 which is really intended for kernel/user abi.
Then make code generic on sizeof inode type.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-13 20:55 UTC|newest]
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2016-04-12 22:22 [PATCH iproute2] ss: 64bit inode numbers Eric Dumazet
2016-04-13 20:55 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-04-13 21:21 ` Eric Dumazet
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