[RFC] IPC64 with glibc-2.2 and linux-2.4

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Sep 25 08:26:00 GMT 2000


Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:

> What about 'seq'? Can I safely bump it to 32bit for userspace in the final
> patch? I see no need for the kernel and userspace being different here, but
> all other archs are limiting it to 16bit, so there may be a reason...

You should avoid changing the size of the struct.  I haven't done the
math on this.

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