linux-kernel - Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Correct way to format spufs file output.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:44:53 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal@...ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Correct way to format spufs file output.

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 20 October 2006 15:54, Dwayne Grant McConnell wrote:
> > I think %0xllx is the way to go. I would even advocate changing 
> > signal1_type and signal2_type unless it is actually too dangerous.
> 
> There is absolutely no reason why these should be hexadecimal, they
> are basically implementing a bool.
> 
> > Is there even a case where changing from %llu to %0xllx would break things? 
> > Perhaps with the combination of a old library with a new kernel?
> 
> Right, a library or some script that has been written assuming there
> is no leading 0x.

We might still want to "broadcast" that we might change that and see how
much gets broken. It's very likely that nothing will.

Ben.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/