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SubjectRe: Linux 3.3-rc4
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yep, this is what I thought, but when this was raised last september,
> both Andrew and Andi disagreed.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/389

Well, I agree that it *could* break things, but considering that at
least glibc does the sign-exitension, any code that puts a large
number in the 'timeout' field would *already* have broken.

Which is why I think we should first try to fix the system call
interface - because it's the simpler patch, and it's the
RightThing(tm) to do from a standards standpoint. It's also almost
guaranteed to work, exactly because of how glibc already does that
conversion.

But if something does break - however unlikely and perverse the code
has to be to be able to do that - we'd clearly have to undo that "just
fix sys_poll()" and use Thomas' patch to have a compat_sys_poll()
instead.

I just don't like the notion of doing that silly compat thing when it
really shouldn't be needed to begin with.

Linus


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