Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:17:32 -0800 | Subject | Re: Linux 3.3-rc4 |
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote: > > It doesn't but changing it for exiting binaries will break existing > binaries that use a workaround.
What existing binaries?
> I'm proposing this because the systemd folks were happy to do it this > way. But if you would like any other existing user space users to change > to using a correctly sized packet then, yes, it isn't what you want to > happen.
Existing binaries *do* use the correct size packet - it's the correct size for native x86-32!
It's our x86-64 compat layer that is wrong. It's a clear bug. Nothing else.
We don't start making up new interfaces because we have clear bugs: we fix the damn bugs.
How could you even sanely do "workarounds"? A x86-32 binary shouldn't even be able to *tell* that the kernel is 64-bit. And if it does that somehow, we should fix that too!
Linus
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