From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: syscalls: sys_setrlimit64/sys_getrlimit64 calls to provide FSIZE limits > 2^32-1 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:46:23 +0100 Message-ID: <497E595F.2010708@gmail.com> References: <200901231759.n0NHxKA3009104@eng-pool-55.spikesource.com> <200901262004.16364.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:8108 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753288AbZA0AqQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:46:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200901262004.16364.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: narendramind@spikesource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-abi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009, narendramind@spikesource.com wrote: >> The solution to this problem would require new setrlimit64() and >> getrlimit64() system calls on x86, and the existing 32-bit system calls >> would need to be retained so that existing binaries would still run. > > When adding new syscalls, please Cc: linux-abi@vger.kernel.org and Arnd -- I think you meant linux-api, not linux-abi. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html