to den 03.03.2005 Klokka 22:46 (+0100) skreiv Andi Kleen: > > As far as the kernel is concerned, asm/posix_types defines > > __kernel_ino_t as "unsigned long" on most platforms (except a few which > > define is as "unsigned int). We don't care what size type glibc itself > > uses. > > That could easily be changed and even pass out 64bit inodes > on 32bit systems. The stat64 syscall ABI allows this. > > Perhaps that should be done and then you could drop the truncation > code.
That would be the ideal solution. I don't see that the current system of truncating is helping anyone. > Of couse this would expose the glibc Bug Bernd ran into on 32bit > too, but at some point they have to fix that bogosity anyways. Right. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
