Subject: Re: Confusion in usr/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
To: grundler@parisc-linux.org (Grant Grundler)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:43:34 -0500 (EST)
From: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, davem@davemloft.net, jaswinder@kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
       x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20090121222522.GB15211@colo.lackof.org> from "Grant Grundler" at Jan 21, 2009 03:25:22 pm
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> > 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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