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Followup to:  <Pine.A32.3.91.961020141145.51096D-100000@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de>
By author: Kai Schulte <sp0005@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Or are there other aspects that are more important?
>

Yes; get_fs_* and put_fs_* relies on *basic* types (byte, shortword,
longword, quadword), whereas, say off_t could be a longword on one
architecture and a quadword on the other -- in fact, it could even
change in a new version of Linux!

-hpa


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