[RFC] Forcing 64-bits __OFF_T_TYPE and __INO_T_TYPE for new 32-bit architectures?

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> (And anything else affected by -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 that
>> I missed.) And, while we're at it, time_t?
>
> For time_t, again, make sure to avoid the x32 mistake with a
> non-POSIX-conforming type for nanoseconds (you can have endian-appropriate
> explicit padding if you want to match a 64-bit ABI, but tv_nsec should
> have type "long" and the kernel needs to ignore the padding on input).

IMNSHO it's POSIX (and C also now, unfortunately) that should change
in that case; there should always have been an nsec_t.

zw