From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758648AbYG1U0I (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:26:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752537AbYG1UZy (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:54 -0400 Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.org ([69.25.196.31]:43240 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752024AbYG1UZy (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:26 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Narendra Prasad Madanapalli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 64-bit rlimits Message-ID: <20080728202526.GO9378@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Alexey Dobriyan , Narendra Prasad Madanapalli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <85e5430e0807280821k1ec1f990te815c8eb4de19b61@mail.gmail.com> <20080728153029.GA14188@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080728153029.GA14188@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:30:29PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > Having in-kernel 32-bit AND 64-bit rlimits is plain wrong, sorry. For backwards compatibility reasons, if we want to support 64-bit rlimits on an 32-bit x86 architectures, it is inevitable. It is the only correct way to do things. - Ted