linux-kernel - Re: + fix-compat-space-msg-size-limit-for-msgsnd-msgrcv.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <200611141049.36145.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:49:35 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	suzuki <suzuki@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + fix-compat-space-msg-size-limit-for-msgsnd-msgrcv.patch added to -mm tree

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:28, suzuki wrote:
> 
> I left it as such, inorder to avoid the future changes that may come in 
> the struct msgbuf -if at all-, which would make us to pass every single 
> field as a parameter to do_msgrcv/do_msgsnd.

struct msgbuf is part of the kernel ABI and will never change, so that's
no problem at all.

	Arnd <><
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