Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759366AbYFKOwT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:52:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757917AbYFKOwL (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:52:11 -0400 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:40384 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752780AbYFKOwK (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:52:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18511.57661.944934.513223@harpo.it.uu.se> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:29:17 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Ian Kent Cc: Pavel Emelyanov , autofs mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Konstantin Khlebnikov Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4: fix 32-bit userspace vs 64-bit kernel communications In-Reply-To: <1213190100.4994.54.camel@raven.themaw.net> References: <484FA0B8.2000002@openvz.org> <1213187579.4994.25.camel@raven.themaw.net> <484FC94E.1000209@openvz.org> <1213190100.4994.54.camel@raven.themaw.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 552 Lines: 12 Ian Kent writes: > What about other arches offer 32-bit within a 64-bit environment (has > this been the case on sparc64 at some point)? > What about the compiler padding on these? Both ppc64 and sparc64 commonly have 32-bit userspaces. But 64-bit and mixed 32/64-bit userspaces are of course possible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/