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Date:      Mon, 06 May 2002 19:22:41 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes.
Message-ID:  <3CD73A71.BF0AF3A@mindspring.com>
References:  <33534.1020505495@critter.freebsd.dk> <p05111737b8fcd5b20d30@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 3:41 AM -0400 5/4/02, Robert Watson wrote:
> >John Baldwin and I have thrown this idea around a number
> >of times, as we keep bumping into things that would change
> >the ABI.
> 
> What things would those be?  Might as well get them listed,
> and see how many of them (if any...) could be included in
> this new vector without hurting the timetable.

Apart from the obvious "stat" values and time_t, there's also
nlink_t, dev_t, etc.... and if we're really clever, a version
number for the stat structure, as the first element.

-- Terry

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