Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: wonderffffffffull ac filemap patch | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 Mar 2003 17:45:57 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 17:33, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Here's a patch I've stolen from 2.4-ac, which is clearly correct so > far as it goes. I keep wanting to get this integrated into 2.4 and > 2.5, then bring shmem.c into line (in 2.5 use generic_write_checks). > > But each time I approach it, I get stuck on trying to understand the > code it's a good patch to. I understand that there's a problem with > loff_t twice as wide as rlim, and that we need to trim count down near > the limit. But I don't understand why 0xFFFFFFFFULL and (u32) rather > than RLIM_INFINITY and (unsigned long): are we really trying to > cripple 64-bit arches here?
For 2.4 I just wanted to handle what we had and fix up the spec violations. For 2.5.x rlimit64 is calling 8)
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