I think Linuxs said we should just fix POSIX on that front. On April 23, 2014 11:15:34 AM PDT, "Pinski, Andrew" <Andrew.Pinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:59 AM, "Chung-Lin Tang" ><cltang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On 2014/4/22 07:20 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> >wrote: >>>>> On Tuesday 22 April 2014 18:37:11 Ley Foon Tan wrote: >>>>>>> Hi Arnd and Peter Anvin, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Other than 64-bit time_t, clock_t and suseconds_t, can you >confirm >>>>>>> that we don't need to have 64 bit off_t? See detail in link >below. >>>>>>> I can submit the patches for 64-bit time changes >>>>>>> (include/asm-generic/posix_types.h and other archs) if everyone >is >>>>>>> agreed on this. >>>>> >>>>> Yes. >>> Okay, will doing that. >> >> I believe that arm64 ILP32 will also be affected. What is the status >of >> this configuration? Has the glibc/kernel ABI been finalized? > >Not yet. I am still working out the signal handling part. But we >already agreed on 64bit time_t, clock_t, and suseconds_t. And we >agreed to a 64bit offset_t too. > >On a related note suseconds in the timespec in posix is defined to be >long. So it would nice if the kernel ignores the upper 32bits so we >(glibc developers) can fix this for new targets including x32 and >arm64/ilp32. > >Thanks, >Andrew > >> >> Thanks, >> Chung-Lin >> -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
