Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 17:22:47 EST


On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:01:59PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> (e) This should have been rather easily anticipated given that you're
> shifting (pid+1) << BITS_PER_LONG/2. I expect the maintainers
> of most/all arches with 32-bit emulation (essentially all
> 64-bit except alpha) to have conniption fits if this gets
> anywhere near mainline. Such shifts are tantamount to 32-bit
> emulated stat(2) always returning -EOVERFLOW in lieu of results.

I've confirmed that backing out fake_ino-fixes.patch repairs 32-bit
emulated userspace.

akpm, please back out fake_ino-fixes.patch.


-- wli
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