[parisc-linux] Help with posix_types.h

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
15 Nov 2000 12:52:52 -0800


Paul Bame <bame@noam.fc.hp.com> writes:

> FYI I just heard some pretty good reasons why both ino_t and off_t
> should be 64 bits even on 32-bit kernels.  Keep those cards and letters
> coming!

Any new port which does *not* do this is broken from the beginning.
Copying existing files is not what you have to do.  Instead look at
today's needs.  The numbers of the x86 port are those the kernel
people told me are needs, multiplied by 2 or 4.  Do the same.

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