On 05/15/2014 01:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > For practical purposes in the kernel, we may still want to use 64-bit > nanoseconds: if we use a 96 bit struct timespec, that would be incompatible > with the native type on 64-bit kernels, thus complicating the syscall > emulation layer. > > I don't know why timespec on x32 uses 'long tv_nsec', it does seem > problematic. struct timespec is specified in POSIX as having type "long" for tv_nsec. This, as Linus pointed out, is totally braindamaged. x32 does not follow POSIX (Linus pretty much dictated that), and instead does the __kernel_suseconds_t to match the native kernel type. The proposal at some point was to try to push a snseconds_t into POSIX. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
