Re: kqueue struct kevent change?

Jason R Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]> Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:17:25 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.bsd.api.general
Organization Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:50:16AM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

 > I've realized it would be desirable if the 'data' field would
 > be 64bit, instead of current intptr_t (which is depending
 > on arch, either 32 or 64bit). I realize this would mean
 > ABI change for Free- and Open-, so I wonder what you think about this?

Is this so you can convey e.g. a file size > 32-bits?  If so, that might
not really make sense, since the size for read/write syscalls are bound
by SSIZE_MAX.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]>

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