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Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.
- From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
- To: Yury Norov <ynorov at caviumnetworks dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:14:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.
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On 21/06/16 06:06, Yury Norov wrote:
> From: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
>
> NOTE This is an ABI change for AARCH64.
> If you have some AARCH32 and AARCH64 applications and they both use
> utmp, one of them will fail due to the use of time_t inside the
> utmp binary format.
>
> This fixes the problem by setting __WORDSIZE_TIME64_COMPAT32.
i think changing the abi now is not ok.
this is BZ 17470 and i think it should be discussed separately
from ilp32.
if it's possible to detect the utmp file format, that would
allow a reasonable fix, the way glibc changes the struct def
based on lp64 targets is non-conforming.