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Re: [PATCH] ppc64 utmp changes
- From: "Steve Munroe" <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:39:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64 utmp changes
Jakub Jelinek write:
> Now an important question is whether we want to do something similar
> on x86-64, s390/s390x and sparc/sparc64.
> Because when both 32-bit and 64-bit programs will use utmp/utmpx,
> the files will contain garbage.
Yes that is an important question!
I still don't understand by this (and other BIARCH stuff) is not a concern
for the more mature BIARCH systems (s390, x86_64, sparc, ...). But I can
find no evidence of this in the sysdeps source for those platforms ...
For powerpc64 we assume that most of the system utilities (the utilities
that write /var/run/utmp for example) will remain 32-bit. So for us making
64-bit backward compatible to 32-bit utmp is the best answer. What are s390
and x86_64 assuming?