On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 21:34 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Unfortunately struct epoll_event contains a gap so it bets on identical > padding rules between native and compat ABI and anyway, padding is wasted > space so the struct members should have been swapped when this structure > was created. Oh well, too late.
Indeed. That was the example I was thinking of when I suggested the "no new syscalls without _simultaneous_ compat version" rule. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/