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Re: glibc 2.1.96


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:

> Comment: If you can, you should really update ino_t to 64 bits; the 2.5
> kernel will probably need a 64-bit ino_t due to NFS v3/v4, XFS, and other
> filesystems with large inode numbers.

I already answered this.  ino64_t is a 64 bit type.  Ino_t will never
change.  People will have to get used to compile with LFS.

> Question: Are you using the thread pointer yet on i386?

Yes.

> If not, you may want to consider using %fs instead of %gs; the
> x86-64 architecture will have a slight assymetry between %fs and
> %gs, and %gs will probably be unavailable to user space.

I cannot imagine this since M$ is also using %gs.  Even if this is
true, it is a completely different architecture.

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