linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

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Message-ID: <20070711080634.GA16426@enneenne.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:06:34 +0200
From:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:03:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> 32bit platforms can still work with 64bit values, they may just not be
> quite as efficient about it.
> 
> After all we support files with more than 2^32 bytes in them, so the
> file access structures must have more than 32bit values in them.

My question is: how can I fit a 64 bits number of seconds into
timespec structure which, for 32 bits architetures, has a 32 bits bits
number of seconds?

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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