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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2006-02-11 17:55:47 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-11 21:41:10 -0800
commitcff2b760096d1e6feaa31948e7af4abbefe47822 (patch)
tree9bd6d2796ffb8c6611ca06b74c6349f8f1289ce2 /kernel
parent25bf368b3d98668c5d5f38e2201d8bca16e52680 (diff)
[PATCH] fstatat64 support
The *at patches introduced fstatat and, due to inusfficient research, I used the newfstat functions generally as the guideline. The result is that on 32-bit platforms we don't have all the information needed to implement fstatat64. This patch modifies the code to pass up 64-bit information if __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined. I renamed the syscall entry point to make this clear. Other archs will continue to use the existing code. On x86-64 the compat code is implemented using a new sys32_ function. this is what is done for the other stat syscalls as well. This patch might break some other archs (those which define __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 and which already wired up the syscall). Yet others might need changes to accomodate the compatibility mode. I really don't want to do that work because all this stat handling is a mess (more so in glibc, but the kernel is also affected). It should be done by the arch maintainers. I'll provide some stand-alone test shortly. Those who are eager could compile glibc and run 'make check' (no installation needed). The patch below has been tested on x86 and x86-64. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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