[RFC] IPC64 with glibc-2.2 and linux-2.4

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Mon Sep 25 17:51:26 EST 2000


Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel at 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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