Re: [PATCH] fixing sendfile on 64bit architectures

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 20:35:32 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

  Christoph> IMHO this is exactly the wrong way around.  It should be
  Christoph> __ARCH_WANT_* or something like that so new architectures
  Christoph> don't carry the old garbage around by default.  There's
  Christoph> far too many new architectures keeping old syscalls by
  Christoph> accident.

Feel free to do that.  I was trying not to break anything and I'm
_certain_ I would have gotten it wrong if I had reversed the sense.

I think the current patch is an improvement, so unless someone comes
up with something better, I'd like to see it applied.

	--david
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