From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: posix message queues
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:45:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040409164506.0611846a.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40745360.6000709@colorfullife.com>
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:15:44 +0200
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
> No. The unix spec mandates 'long' for the final C-library api. Using u32
> would mean that glibc would have to add an emulation layer in user space
> for 64-bit archs. In the long run, 64-bit kernels running 64-bit apps
> will be the common case. I don't want to add an emulation layer to the
> common case.
We need to support this stuff when running 32-bit apps, you cannot
avoid this Manfred. So we'll need kernel compat layer code to
translate these structures containing 'long'. Please code up the
necessary compat.c code for this posix message queues feature.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-09 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-07 19:07 posix message queues Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 19:15 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-08 8:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-04-08 8:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-08 14:08 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-08 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-09 23:45 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-04-10 11:19 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-10 11:53 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-10 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
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2004-04-08 22:22 Arnd Bergmann
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