linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys

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Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:29:23 -0800
From:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com>
To:	"Dave Kleikamp" <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Badari Pulavarty" <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, suparna@...ibm.com, cmm@...ibm.com,
	alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

On 3/2/07, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Then there's no need for sys_allocate to return a long.

Every syscall must return a long.  Otherwise you can have problems on
64-bit archs.
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