Re: 64-bit inode numbers (was: glibc 2.1.96)

[Alexander Viro]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:

>   Something along the lines of:  As we no longer have access control
>   in form of having magic UIDs, e.g. zero vs. non-zero, we could as well
>   begin to use UTF-16 UNICODE 3.0 encoded strings for UID referral in
>   fixed size arrays giving us instant Java string compability.
>   (Ok, far fetched, but just you wait...)

To fsck with Java, there are reasons to represent text as text completely
unrelated to that crap. Actually, flag-day might be a good idea - we
definitely could live without _many_ system calls. And not just ones that
have analogs with wider fields. Look through the syscall tables and see
how much of it consists of useless junk that belongs to userland. Sigh...

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