Hence, >= 65535 (note the = part of >=).
> btw... I've made partial patches for 32-bit uid_t support (I know
> someone else has too, against 2.0.36 or thereabouts) and this
> introduces a whole bunch of new system calls, even for things like
> fcntl (think SET_OWN).
>
> At some point in the future we might also want 32-bit dev_t and
> 32-bit pid_t so its probably worth trying to do them all at once,
> that way we don't end up with 15 different flavours of the same
> system calls (think about stat et al and all the combinations of
> short/long system calls... yuck).
Yes. This is all planned to be one of the early 2.3 changes.
-hpa
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