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Message-ID: <474320C4.2040600@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:36 -0800
From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/6] Allow setting FD_CLOEXEC flag for new sockets
> +union indirect_params {
> + struct {
> + int flags;
> + } file_flags;
> +};
Have you given thought to having to perform compat translation on this?
Today it's only copied directly from the user pointer into the union
in the task_struct.
I'd love if we could only use fixed-width fields in the interface to
avoid the compat nonsense.
- z
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