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Re: [RFC] IPC64 with glibc-2.2 and linux-2.4
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] IPC64 with glibc-2.2 and linux-2.4
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 24 Sep 2000 23:51:26 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, linuxppc-dev at lists dot linuxppc dot org
- References: <00092421504403.01070@enzo.bigblue.local>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> I'm especially interested in:
> - did I get the alignment and data types right everywhere? also right for
> PPC64?
> - I would like to bump ipc64_perm.seq to 32bit as it is internally in
> linux-2.4. Is this safe for userspace? Why didn't the other archs bump it to
> the kernels size?
> - other comments?
The patch looks reasonable to me but I cannot decide about using it
since the kernel would have to be changed first.
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