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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
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Followup to:  <20040511234329.GA27242@kroah.com>
By author:    Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Don't know, but how are you dealing with the issue that an "int" is
> different for different kernel sizes (64 vs 32) and userspace too.
> That's why you can't use it in an ioctl and expect things to work
> properly.
> 

On Linux, "int" should always be 32 bits.  "long", and "void *",
however, may be 32 or 64 bits.

	-hpa