Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:15:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add getdents32t syscall |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Userland struct dirent is:
Ahh. So with the new thing, you'd need no conversion at all.
> (since 1997 or so), so with the extended getdents syscall glibc would need > to memmove every name by 1 byte.
The thing is, I hate encouraging glibc's behaviour of "we'll make up our own structures", and then ask the kernel to fix it later when it was done wrong in glibc. This is a totally new format that is totally unnecessary, and the RIGHT thing to do is to have glibc just use the proper 64-bit format.
In other words, why doesn't glibc ever just make a new major number and make its "struct dirent" be the 64-bit version? It is _ridiculous_ to carry this baggage around, and then complain and add MORE baggage to the kernel because of having done things wrong the first time around.
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