Re: unregistered changes to the user<->kernel API

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:12:19PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> is not definitive yet, O_DIRECTIO of tru64 is our O_NOFOLLOW so we're
> just screwed as we just need a wrapper anyways to make complex programs like

I just got the email from Richard that he prefers to break O_NOFOLLOW
than to define O_DIRECT to something else than 0200000. So probably
there will be an incrmeental patch for the alpha later to apply on top
of the previous ones.

Also please folks remind to never choose random numbers for the alpha
userspace visible kernel API.

Andrea
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