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From: Erez Zadok
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/FIONBIO/FIOASYNC file ioctls
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 10:49 am

BTW, what's the origin of this oddity in fs/ioctl.c:

#ifdef __sparc__
	/* SunOS compatibility item. */
	if (O_NONBLOCK != O_NDELAY)
		flag |= O_NDELAY;
#endif

It seems rather odd to have architecture-specific code in the VFS, no?

Erez.
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[PATCH] 0/4 fs/ioctl.c coding style, rename vfs_ioctl/do_i ..., Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 5:40 pm)
[PATCH 1/4] VFS: apply coding standards to fs/ioctl.c, Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 5:40 pm)
[PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 5:40 pm)
[PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/FIONB ..., Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 5:40 pm)
[PATCH 4/4] Unionfs: use vfs_ioctl, Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 5:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Oct 28, 7:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 2:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/F ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 2:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Randy Dunlap, (Tue Oct 30, 8:22 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 10:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Randy Dunlap, (Tue Oct 30, 10:16 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names , Erez Zadok, (Tue Oct 30, 10:43 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/F ..., Erez Zadok, (Tue Oct 30, 10:49 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/F ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 10:57 am)