Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> writes: > On Thursday 12 November 2015 10:44:55 Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> writes: >> >> > What do you mean with 32-bit off_t? >> >> An ABI with 32-bit off_t, ie. all currently implemented 32-bit ABIs. >> >> > Do you mean that glibc emulates a 32-bit off_t on top of the 64-bit >> > __kernel_loff_t? >> >> Glibc is bridging the user-space ABI to the kernel ABI. > > Ok, but why?
That's how the ABI is defined right now. I didn't make that up. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
