Re: Porting to IBM Risc 6000

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Olof Johansson <offe%localnet.sh@localhost> writes:
> There's the minor exception in the base distribution for commands that
> access /dev/kmem. These (w, vmstat, netstat, et al) will exec() a 64-bit
> version if run on a 64-bit kernel.

There are lots of apps you want to be 64 bit. For example, you might
want cp to be 64 bit so it can do the copy by mmap trick with files
larger than 4G. mmaping huge files is of use in many programs...

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