From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261698AbUB0BdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:33:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261709AbUB0BdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:33:24 -0500 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:21932 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261698AbUB0BdU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:33:20 -0500 Message-ID: <403E9E4D.6090301@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:33:01 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jakub Jelinek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add getdents32t syscall References: <20040226193819.GA3501@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20040226223212.GA31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linus Torvalds wrote: > The thing is, I hate encouraging glibc's behaviour of "we'll make up our > own structures", and then ask the kernel to fix it later when it was done > wrong in glibc. This is a totally new format that is totally unnecessary, > and the RIGHT thing to do is to have glibc just use the proper 64-bit > format. Good idea. Let's go back in time to 1994/5 and add d_type then. May I remember you that I always wanted large data types but whenever it was proposed the kernel people (including you) said: we don't need it this big now therefore it won't be changed. > In other words, why doesn't glibc ever just make a new major number and > make its "struct dirent" be the 64-bit version? You can't be serious. Can you even imagine the pain this would cause? - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPp5N2ijCOnn/RHQRAuuOAJ4rY41j0ifWbK3R8Qv5elA+RULCqwCeP+RC pIC2Re4DR6tUZSPmqsijjGw= =PfkG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----