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Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] 32-bit ABIs: support stat syscall family
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Yury Norov <ynorov at caviumnetworks dot com>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <arnd at arndb dot de>, <catalin dot marinas at arm dot com>, <davem at davemloft dot net>, <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>, <pinskia at gmail dot com>, <bamvor dot zhangjian at huawei dot com>, <fweimer at redhat dot com>, <Prasun dot Kapoor at cavium dot com>, <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:53:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] 32-bit ABIs: support stat syscall family
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On Di, Aug 09 2016, Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> I think that having XSTAT_IS_XSTAT64 for implementation and
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS for interface is the bad idea for maintenance.
> It's better to have a single option.
These are independent concepts. The first is about the kernel interface
and internal to glibc, the second is a user option.
Andreas.
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