Re: Confusion in usr/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h

[John David Anglin]

> > CONFIG_64BIT on parisc user space looks very wrong.
> 
> This shouldn't be exported to user space. Is that what you meant?

This does get exported to user space as applications sometimes need
to know whether they are running under a 32 or 64-bit kernel.  See
config.guess.  However, it certainly would be wrong to use this
to make decisions about user space.

Dave
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