On Sun Jun 04, 2000 at 06:50:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > + val.freehigh*=PAGE_SIZE;
> > >
> > > Each of these may overflow a 32bit value
> >
> > Only on 32 bit platforms that have High Memory Support enabled.
>
> Swap can overflow on any box
Ok. I hadn't considered that case. Doesn't that mean 2.2.x is broken
as well?
If we cap the returns from sysinfo to ULONG_MAX and then implement sysinfo64 so
it returns things in units of PAGE_SIZE, it won't break binaries and source
without lettting folks at lease know somthing has changed...
-Erik
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