Subject: Re: Why does mode_t need 32 bits?
To: None <christos@nyc.deshaw.com, jbernard@tater.mines.edu>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/31/1997 10:34:20 
 >   But don't you _still_ have that same problem on a machine with 64-bit ints
 > when mode_t is u_int32_t?

Except that there are no machines with 64 bit ints.

At least, none of the risc or cisc micros do that. The lp64 scheme has its
ups and downs, we may as well count on the ups and it _is_ a standard.