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Re: [PATCH] ppc64 utmp changes
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:43:26PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> > Now an important question is whether we want to do something similar
>> > on x86-64, s390/s390x and sparc/sparc64.
>> > Because when both 32-bit and 64-bit programs will use utmp/utmpx,
>> > the files will contain garbage.
>>
>> Well, I'd been presuming the formats had been settled for those
>> architectures already. If it's acceptable or desireable to change them,
>> then let's look at all the architectures at once. If we can just change
>> the one sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmp{x,}.h file to use bits/wordsize.h and be
>> consistent everywhere, that would be much better than lots of new utmp.h files.
>
> That we certainly can't. We have to keep it for Alpha and IA-64 for sure.
> I think we can not-too-painfully change it for sparc64.
> Dunno about x86-64 and s390x.
We can change it for x86-64, no problem.
Andreas
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