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Date:	Sun, 06 May 2012 19:38:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] broken TASK_SIZE for ia32_aout

From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 00:32:34 +0100

> bit looks dubious.  What happens when 32bit task makes a 64bit syscall?
> Do we really want to drop upper 32 bits of all arguments in the copy we
> are building?

I basically never intended to support 32-bit tasks making 64-bit
system calls except in extremely limited situations such as ptrace()
so that a 32-bit gdb could debug 64-bit tasks.

Do we really have to support crap like this?
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