On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:03 AM Kevin Easton <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:29:14AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > ... > > I can't say anything about the syscall interface. However, what I do know > > is that the weird combination of a 32-bit userland with a 64-bit kernel > > interface is sometimes causing issues. For example, application code usually > > expects things like time_t to be 32-bit on a 32-bit system. However, this > > isn't the case for x32 which is why code fails to build. > > OpenBSD and NetBSD both have 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems and have > had for four or five years at this point. They can also do flag-day changes and break existing applications, Linux not. -- Thanks, //richard
