Re: [PATCH] fstatat64 support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:08:39PM -0500, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> The *at patches introduced fstatat and, due to inusfficient research, I
> used the newfstat functions generally as the guideline.  The result is
> that on 32-bit platforms we don't have all the information needed to
> implement fstatat64.
> 
> This patch modifies the code to pass up 64-bit information if
> __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined.  I renamed the syscall entry point to
> make this clear.  Other archs will continue to use the existing code.
> On x86-64 the compat code is implemented using a new sys32_ function.
> this is what is done for the other stat syscalls as well.
> 
> 
> This patch might break some other archs (those which define
> __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 and which already wired up the syscall).  Yet
> others might need changes to accomodate the compatibility mode.
> I really don't want to do that work because all this stat handling
> is a mess (more so in glibc, but the kernel is also affected).  It
> should be done by the arch maintainers.  I'll provide some
> stand-alone test shortly.  Those who are eager could compile glibc
> and run 'make check' (no installation needed).

please remove the new from the syscall name.  just sys_fstatat64

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