Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: propolice support for linux | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:07:48 -0500 |
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Han Boetes wrote: > Thanks for your comments! This wasn't my patch, just the closed > thing to something working I could find. Here is my version. > > Now all I wonder about is what the _NOVERS should become, since > Arjen pointed it it `was dead,' since I don't really understand > what he means with that. > > Perhaps I should also add some additional comment about how little > effect this extension resorts on kernel-level. > > And I got two warnings about `int __guard = '\0\0\n\777';' > > lib/propolice.c:15:15: warning: octal escape sequence out of range > lib/propolice.c:15:15: warning: multi-character character constant
Unless you foresee a port of Linux to some 36 bit hardware (like MULTICS) with nine bit bytes, is there a reason not to us \377? I have used 36 (and 48) bit hardware, but I don't expect it to ever get a Linux port.
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