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DateTue, 07 Feb 2006 00:44:15 -0800 (PST)
SubjectRe: [PATCH] compat: add compat functions for *at syscalls
From"David S. Miller" <>
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:15:23 -0800 (PST)

> Oh f*ck, why do people do ugly code like this?>> That's just about the nastiest thing I've ever seen.

I totally agree.
> > However, what I suspect David was actually suggesting was to just have 
> some trivial for just the compat functions. You can generate them 
> automatically based on >  - function name
>  - signedness/unsignedness of each argument
> with some preprocessor hackery.
> 
> So each architecture could have the following #defines:

Exactly.
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