From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:52:51 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.1.126 still no sparc64 autofsu Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:17:49 -0800 (PST) Why is the "long" a different size in kernel and user space? That seems buggy. It's an easy thing to fix, but it seems like the Wrong Thing[TM]. Changing that to "int" would be just fine, *except* it would break the protocol for all other platforms. All of our userlands currently on sparc64 are 32-bit because we have not bootstrapped a 64-bit userland fully enough yet. We have a full (sic) 32-64 bit translation layer for all user visible interfaces of the kernel already in files named arch/sparc64/kernel/*32*.c which are supposed to take care of all these issues. Every once in a while an ioctl() or two slip by without our noticing and we have to take care of it when the user finally hits it. :-) Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com