From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Thorsten Kukuk Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] setrlimit/getrlimit Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:04:00 -0000 Message-id: <19991215170722.M822@mff.cuni.cz> References: <19991215164633.A30703@Wotan.suse.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-12/msg00063.html > Jakub, I changed the sparc/bits/resouces.h file as you suggested, > sparc32 uses signed long, sparc64 unsigned long. Could you please > look at the patch ? I'll wait until we get to consensus with Davem and I do the kernel side. > I have one problem with this: What happens if somebody compiles > his sparc64 binaries with the new header files and runs for example > linux 2.2.5 ? This kernel doesn't reject negative rlimit values. No problem. He will not do it. sparc64 userland will be officially supported with 2.3.latest and later. E.g. up to 2.3.18 or when was it any 64bit task can set its page tables as it wants because it can access its VPTE area, so enabling BINFMT_ELF on those kernels is a security issue. Also, several other bugs have been fixed in 2.3, so 64bit userland would not be usable anyway. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.26 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________