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Re: [Linux PATCH] fcntl: add new F_OFD_*32 constants and handle them appropriately

Hi!
> > Yes, that's what glibc folks should do for now given that they still
> > seem to refuse being draggred into the present.
> 
> Your assumptions are wrong, at least for some (many?) of us.  32-bit
> architectures are legacy; giving them a 64-bit off_t (or even time_t)
> does not really change that.  A hard ABI transition is simply not
> worth the effort.

Unfortunately there are still 32bit processors manufactured and sold
even these days, mainly for IOT though.

For instance Intel has released Quark (32bit i586 400Mhz CPU used in
Edison board) in 2014. First two batches of Raspberry Pi were 32bit
ARMv6/ARMv7, these are still sold today, etc.

So I would say that 32bit will stick with us for another ten years at
least.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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