> Since there is no legacy interface to worry about all members added to
> the structure can and should be neutral of the word size.
OK, perhaps add a giant comment warning about that. History tells us
that people will get it wrong.
> We've done
> this with some syscalls already (like pread64)
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Zach Brown wrote:
> Have you given thought to having to perform compat translation on this?
> Today it's only copied directly from the user pointer into the union
> in the task_struct.
Since there is no legacy interface to worry about all members ad
> +union indirect_params {
> + struct {
> +int flags;
> + } file_flags;
> +};
Have you given thought to having to perform compat translation on this?
Today it's only copied directly from the user pointer into the union
in the task_struct.
I'd love if we could only use fixed-width fields
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