Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:22:30AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:27:32PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > joerg opposed it, and i'm not particular happy about this change.
> 
> Why? It does not affect you if you do not enable it, and the
> change is not intrusive.

It's ugly and it will paper over more and more compat32 bugs as
time passes.  For example, with the exception of the /dev issues,
as far as I can tell everything you've had trouble with is a failure
to properly translate system call or ioctl arguments.

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