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being "ctl" functions that take command numbers, these will be handled
like ioctl/sockopt/etc., using new command numbers for the time64
variants with an "IPC_TIME64" bit added to their values. to obtain
such a reserved bit, we reuse the IPC_64 bit, 0x100, which served only
as part of the libc-to-kernel interface, not as a public interface of
the libc functions.
using new command numbers avoids the need for compat shims (in ABIs
doing time64 through symbol redirection and compat shims) and, by
virtue of having a fixed time64 bit for all commands, we can ensure
that libc can perform the appropriate translations, even if the
application is using new commands from a newer version of the libc
headers than the libc available at runtime.
for the vast majority of 32-bit archs, the kernel {sem,shm,msq}id64_ds
definitions left padding space intended for expanding their time_t
fields to 64 bits in-place, and it would have been really nice to be
able to do time64 support that way. however the padding was almost
always in little-endian order (except on powerpc, and for msqid_ds
only on mips, where it matched the arch's byte order), and more
importantly, the alignment was overlooked. in semid_ds and msqid_ds,
the time_t members were not suitably aligned to be expanded to 64-bit,
due to the ipc_perm header consisting of 9 32-bit words -- except on
powerpc where ipc_perm contains an extra padding word. in shmid_ds,
the time_t members were suitably aligned, except that mips
(accidentally?) omitted the padding for them alltogether.
as a result, we're stuck with adding new time_t fields on the end of
the structures, and assembling the 32-bit lo/hi parts (or 16-bit hi
parts, for mips shmid_ds, which lacked sufficient reserved space for
full 32-bit hi parts) to fill them in.
all of the functional changes here are conditional on the IPC_TIME64
macro having a nonzero definition, which will only happen when
IPC_STAT is redefined for 32-bit archs, and on time_t being larger
than long, so for now the new code is all dead code.
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the definition of the IPC_64 macro controls the interface between libc
and the kernel through syscalls; it's not a public API. the meaning is
rather obscure. long ago, Linux's sysvipc *id_ds structures used
16-bit uids/gids and wrong types for a few other fields. this was in
the libc5 era, before glibc. the IPC_64 flag (64 is a misnomer; it's
more like 32) tells the kernel to use the modern[-ish] versions of the
structures.
the definition of IPC_64 has nothing to do with whether the arch is
32- or 64-bit. rather, due to either historical accident or
intentional obnoxiousness, the kernel only accepts and masks off the
0x100 IPC_64 flag conditional on CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION,
i.e. for archs that want to provide, or that accidentally provided,
both. for archs which don't define this option, no masking is
performed and commands with the 0x100 bit set will fail as invalid. so
ultimately, the definition is just a matter of matching an arbitrary
switch defined per-arch in the kernel.
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