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> If that is true, then _any_ syscall that takes an int value must have
> a ppc specific sign-extending compat wrapper, are you sure that is
> the case ?

Ok, so that's crap that has been bitrotting. We -do- need to sign extend
everywhere and it looks like we forgot to do it on anything recent, like
signalfd4...

Ben.