From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:57:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:57:00 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:15531 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:56:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:56:48 -0500 From: Dave McCracken To: Linus Torvalds cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [RFC] POSIX personality Message-ID: <72190000.1022014608@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --On Tuesday, May 21, 2002 01:52:37 PM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > I don't see any reason to start using some fixed-mode semantics without > seeing some stronger arguments on exactly why that would be a good idea. > We have used up 11 of 24 bits (and more can be made available) over the > last five years, and there are no obvious inefficiencies that I can see. Ok, sounds reasonable. I'll add the bits as I go, then. Dave McCracken ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059