Re: Probably incorrect formatting in timespec.3type

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:45:37AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> What is exactly "syscall long".  Is it what the kernel understands
> internally as a long (which I guess doesn't necessarily match with what
> userspace understands as long)?  I'm not so used to kernel details...

Yeah, if you're looking at it that way then you could call it
"the kABI long", as you say ‒ on X32 the kABI is amd64=LP64,
but the userspace is ILP32: the kABI long is a u64,
and the smallest (only) userspace u64 is long long.

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