Re: glibc preparation patch for lockf support in Hurd
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 23:39 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Mon 18 Aug 2014 21:56:19 +0200, a écrit :
> > The reason this is needed is that the MIG generated RPC for hurd/glibc
> > currently does not support mixed 32 and 64 bit entries,
>
> Well, make it just always 64bit then. AIUI, this type is not used in
> any RPC at all yet, so this can't break anything. See how this is done
> for io_statbuf_t, it's always the 64bit content.
Why not extend MIG to support mixed sizes (in addition to solving the
non-uniqueness of the application)?
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