Re: [PATCH] Fix argument checking in sched_setaffinity

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> The only change I would like to have is to check the excess bytes
> to make sure they don't contain some random value. They should
> be either all 0 or all 0xff. 

I hate the "byte at a time" interface.

That said, I think the "long at a time" interface we have now for bitmaps 
ends up being a compatibility problem, where the compat layer has to worry 
about big-endian 32-bit "long" lookign different from big-endian 64-bit 
"long".

So there are other issues here.

		Linus
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