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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Die to NOTRACK/TRACE, long live MARK!
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:41:10 +0200
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Hi,

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>On Tue, 25 May 2004, Pablo Neira wrote:
>  
>
>>if we use atomic operations *_bit for status field in ip_conntrack, we 
>>only use 24 bits of that unsigned long, this issue lets us keep 
>>compatibility with some special platforms which only support atomic 
>>operations of that size.
>>    
>>
>
>Correct. This is also documented int the Kernel API IIRC.
>  
>
yes, but I made a mistake, I was talking about atomic operations but 
actually Patrick asked about test_bit/set_bit operations.

regards,
Pablo