Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.5.39)

Jes Sorensen
2002-10-03T02:33:08Z

David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:

> >>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:28:12 +1000, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:
>
> Peter> 1. Change the definition of ino_t to be a long, not an
> Peter> int, as was done in the sparc64 and ppc64 code. The comments
> Peter> in asm/posix_types.h say these types are used for
> Peter> communication to userspace, so maybe that's not an option any
> Peter> more?
>
> [snip]
>
> If we can do it without breaking apps, I'm all for changing ino_t to
> 64 bits. Note that "struct stat" already defines the st_ino member as
> "unsigned long". Also, glibc declares ino_t as a 64-bit type.

I don't think there should be many (if any) cases where this happens,
but I agree it should be validated. Since we're in little endian mode,
we might be lucky that natural data alignment inside structs will save
us as well ;-)

Cheers,
Jes