Re: Confusion in usr/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h

From: John David Anglin
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 17:43:47 EST


> > CONFIG_64BIT on parisc user space looks very wrong.
>
> This shouldn't be exported to user space. Is that what you meant?

This does get exported to user space as applications sometimes need
to know whether they are running under a 32 or 64-bit kernel. See
config.guess. However, it certainly would be wrong to use this
to make decisions about user space.

Dave
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