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Re: [Linux PATCH] fcntl: add new F_OFD_*32 constants and handle them appropriately
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- To: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat dot com>
- Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, chrubis at suse dot cz
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:05:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Linux PATCH] fcntl: add new F_OFD_*32 constants and handle them appropriately
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NAK. People should stop using 32-bit off_t and friends yesterday.
It's a shame that glibc hasn't cought up with last century yet and
stopped providing the non-LFS APIs for newly compiled code, but
we certainly should not bloat the kernel for the idiotic behavior.
In addition anyone is going to use a new Linux-only feature like the
OFS locks should be using LFS support anyway.