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DateMon, 12 May 2008 21:39:25 -0700 (PDT)
SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/18] flag parameters: check magic constants
FromDavid Miller <>
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:21:29 -0700

> Is MIPS really a problem?  The value is 0x80.  128 protocol types should
> be enough.  Even if not, there is no reason why the numbers should be
> consecutive.  It's easy enough to skip over a bit.  I.e., after procotol
> 0x7f the next one would be 0x100.

Indeed, MIPS looks good.

> And PA seems to have gotten O_NONBLOCK wrong.  SPARC does it right AFAICS.

I agree.

But that value is compiled into every parisc binary out there,
limiting what we can do about it in the short term.


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