[parisc-linux] Include trouble

Paul Bame bame@noam.fc.hp.com
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:21:05 -0700


= Go 32bit. Linus will probably refuse to touch a 32bit port using longlong
= internally for off-t

Hmmm, too bad, since we have few palinux backwards compatibility issues and
could just have the __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 glibc magic be a no-op rather
than supporting all those extra *64 syscalls.  Plus we'd need
considerably fewer syscall translators to run 32-bit apps on 64-bit
kernel (but might need more for 32-bit hpux apps).  It seems illogical
to make a file-system-related data type different based on cpu
word size but I understand this isn't simple -- oh well.

Seems like the consensus is 32-bit off_t on 32-bit kernel and just
live with all those *64 syscalls -- many not supported on palinux
yet I notice.

	-P