On Wed, 6 May 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Conversion for sys_futex is particularly easy, we can use the unmodified > compat_sys_futex on 32-bit systems to provide compatibility for 32-bit > time_t, and change sys_futex to pass a __kernel_timespec, which matches > what future libc implementations will use as their struct timespec. Unless I'm missing something I doubt that you get away that easy. It works on 32bit, but not on 64 bit with 32bit app support: Native 64bit: sys_futex() 32bit timespec32: compat_sys_futex() 32bit timespec64: ????? You cannot map that to sys_futex() because the pointer size differs. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html