Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2008 21:39:25 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 18/18] flag parameters: check magic constants | | From | David 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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