On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Kernel Apprentice <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > >> Hello, >> >> Now that we have O_TMPFILE and O_BENEATH added to the openat flags, there >> is no space left to add more flags since the flags variable is a 32 bit >> int. How does one resolve this issue and extend this? A new syscall with a >> 64bit wide flags support? > > Maybe I'm missing something, but a signed 32 bit integer variable holds > a maximum value of > > 2,147,483,647
as far as i know each bit of the number will represent a flag. so a 8 bit value can have a maximum of 8 flags and not 256 flags . same goes for a 32 bit integer. regards sudip _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
