Re: fadvise on MIPS

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:48:12 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> 
wrote:
> > 2) On O32, glibc pass a 'long long' argument by hi and lo words, but
> > kernel needs padding word between 'fd' and 'offset' argument.
> > 
> > 3) On N32, glibc pass a 'long long' argument by hi and lo words, but
> > kernel expects a single register value for 'long long' argument.
> 
> And sync_file_range() has some problem too.

Hmm, for other system calls with long long argument, such as
ftruncate64, glibc and uClibc provides mips specific version just for
insert a padding argument.

This is a general rule?  Or for new system call, we can do that
adjustment in kernel to avoid fixing each C libraries?

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Atsushi Nemoto