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Re: rlimit changes

To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Subject: Re: rlimit changes
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Date: 10 Dec 1999 16:56:15 +0100
Cc: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <m37linnc98.fsf@localhost.localnet> <jeln73f9uc.fsf@hawking.suse.de> <m3k8mmkex7.fsf@localhost.localnet> <19991210162833.A19371@Wotan.suse.de> <m3emcukdo2.fsf@localhost.localnet>

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

|> Wel, then make the changes to the SPARC tree.  But since there is no
|> ugetrlimit syscalls the question is whether it was wanted there at
|> all.  The x86 is a special case since it actually allows 4GB memory
|> and more.  Is this true for SPARC? If not the kernel change is not
|> necessary at all and *will* (note: future tense!!!) be changed back.

SUS2 says that rlim_t is unsigned.  Will you ignore that?  This has
nothing to do with the kernel.

Andreas.

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