Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:42:54 -0500 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] POSIX sysconf() hooks via read-only sysctls |
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:35:23PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Hi. Since my latest 32-bit UID patches still apply fine to 2.3.38pre1, I > > I'll send you some patches tomorrow btw. I got rid of a chunk of the ifdefs > and moved most of the 16bit compat calls into kernel/uid16.o so we can > eventually conditionally link it
While you're working in this area, Alan, would you like to also move some of the old cruft from fs/stat.c into a new file which can be conditionally linked? Perhaps even the same one. Or perhaps we can just delete these syscalls, since I haven't noticed David Parsons complaining about `using old stat() call. Recompile your binary' messages filling his syslog.
At the very least, we should invert the sense of the #if in stat.c:
#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__m68k__) || defined(__arm__)
is a lot better than
#if !defined(__alpha__) && !defined(__sparc__) && !defined(__ia64__)
since new architectures will not require these syscalls.
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