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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:46:13AM +0100, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:29:18 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> said:> > Andi> But the 32bit user space surely doesn't care about any garbage > Andi> in the upper 32bits, no ? > > The user-space won't, but the kernel exit path might. Remember that True. The signal return path checking for the 5xx errnos expects them to be 64bit extended. I now even vaguely remember an obscure bug I once saw on x86-64 with an 32bit application actually seeing ERESTARTSYS that might just have been caused by such an issue. Thanks for pointing that out. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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