Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> > The memory size must actually be limited on all architectures, because
> > the interfaces are supposed to be machine independent, which requires
> > the word size of the relevant parameters to be constant.
> 
> That's insane.  The interfaces on 64-bit machines use 64-bit sizes. 

This breaks network transparency, and is a bug in the MK8x versions of
the kernel, that had to be fixed in the NORMA versions.