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Re: [PATCH v5] y2038: Introduce __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define

On Wed, 29 May 2019, Lukasz Majewski wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but would there be any use case
> (possibility) that for archs supporting 64 bit time ABI (and using e.g.
> __NR_clock_settime now) the new syscalls (like __NR_clock_settime64),
> with the same functionality, would be added with different numbers?

I don't see a use case for it, but it's one of many ideas that were 
discussed in the past (to have the same syscalls on all systems with the 
same numbers as far as possible).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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