Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | 20 Apr 2003 14:12:14 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:34, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > Yesterday or the day before Linus preferred __u32 etc for this > loopinfo64 ioctl, so I did it that way. Here, since mknod is a > traditional Unix system call, I am still inclined to prefer > (unsigned) int above __u32. Of course it doesn't matter much.
To 64-bit platforms implementing 32-bit compatability layers, it can matter a ton to use portable vs. non-portable types.
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