Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:19 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based
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Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
>  
> > This is patently ridiculous. Make a compat_sched_getaffinity(), and
> > likewise for whatever else is copying unsigned long arrays to userspace.
> 
> Did someone say compat_sched_getaffinity?
> 

aargh!  It's back!

> 
> --
> 
> Patch from Milton Miller that adds the sched_affinity syscalls into the
> compat layer. 

There's something about this patch which make me break out in hives.  Does
it *really* need to be that complicated?

iirc, the last time I looked through this I was unable to convince myself
that it was endianness-correct.  Is it?

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