> Your real problems will be system calls. There isn't enough space in
> some of the structs. Sign extension and trunctuation will cause great
> trouble.
>
> The system call problem is easy; we simply create new system calls that
> return new structures, and let glibc handle the problem of deciding
> whether or not the new system calls are present. The structure which
> glibc exports to the user applications fortunately already supports
> 32-bit uid's.
This would mean new stat() system call, would not it? You probably
want to extend st_size to 64 bits and maybe even expand st_rdev. Talk
to jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz, he already did some of this.
> The only problem them would be for people using libc5 or a.out
> libraries. They would simply not be able to take advantage of > 16bit
> uids on their system.
...which does not hurt that much...
Pavel
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