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SubjectRe: 2.1.126 still no sparc64 autofs
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> I tend to agree it's buggy. I would expect the long to generate a 32
> bit int even in the 64 bit kernel space unless you specifically ask
> for a 64 bit long .ie. suns 'long long'. This would keep things
> downward/backward compatible.

Making it maximally broken is the phrase you are looking for I believe

> I was going to provide a patch to do something like this, but unless I
> misunderstood Alan I think he said there are ioctl's which can be used
> to convert the 64 bit structs while passing to 32 bit user space. I'm
> getting lost finding them though...
>
> Anyway, I guess this is only a problem while were're still limited to
> 32 bit user space with 64 bit kernels.

Look at the sparc32 entry points for sparc64, especially
arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c

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