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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:41:57 +0100 From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 07:07:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > /proc/bus/input/devices (fucked bitmap-to-text representation) To illustrate the, er, beauty of that stuff: ; cat32 /proc/bus/input/devices >/tmp/a ; cat /proc/bus/input/devices >/tmp/b ; diff -u /tmp/a /tmp/b|grep '^[-+]' --- /tmp/a 2020-09-20 14:28:43.442560691 -0400 +++ /tmp/b 2020-09-20 14:28:49.018543230 -0400 -B: KEY=1100f 2902000 8380307c f910f001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe +B: KEY=1100f02902000 8380307cf910f001 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe -B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 -B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +B: KEY=420 70000 0 0 0 0 -B: KEY=100000 0 0 0 +B: KEY=10000000000000 0 -B: KEY=4000 0 0 0 0 +B: KEY=4000 0 0 -B: KEY=8000 0 0 0 0 0 1100b 800 2 200000 0 0 0 0 +B: KEY=800000000000 0 0 1100b00000800 200200000 0 0 -B: KEY=3e000b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +B: KEY=3e000b00000000 0 0 0 -B: KEY=ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff fffffffe +B: KEY=ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffe ; (cat32 being a 32bit binary of cat) All the differences are due to homegrown bitmap-to-text conversion. Note that feeding that into a pipe leaves the recepient with a lovely problem - you can't go by the width of words (they are not zero-padded) and you can't go by the number of words either - it varies from device to device. And there's nothing we can do with that - it's a userland ABI, can't be changed without breaking stuff. I would prefer to avoid additional examples like that, TYVM...
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