Re: new architectures, time_t __kernel_long_t

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The other types that are used as 64 bit on x32 are ino_t, nlink_t,
> size_t, ssize_t, ptrdiff_t, and off_t.
>
> Obviously, we want to use 64-bit off_t, but this is achieved already
> through loff_t, which is used in all places in the asm-generic
> ABI anyway (the syscalls using off_t are stripped out). I don't

Indeed.

> think we want to have the other ones set to 64 bit on ARC or Meta,
> although I'm not 100% sure about ino_t and nlink_t.

Is ino_t related to inode numbers stored in on-disk file system metadata?

Currently, nlink_t is unconditionally __u32, even on 64-bit.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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