Re: [PATCH] New phys_addr() syscall

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:39:45 +1200


On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:47:13PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Aside: I've switched to an ioctl(2) interface on /proc/*/mem.
> The problem is that the return value is an int, which is only 32
> bits. Won't this be a problem for 64 machines with over 4 GBytes of
> RAM?

err = ioctl(fd,RGOOCH_FUNKY_STUFF,&some_data_to_fill_out);

addr = some_data_to_fill_out.addr;

?

-cw

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