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time64 syscall is used only if it's the only one defined for the arch,
or if the requested timeout length does not fit in 32 bits. on current
32-bit archs where time_t is a 32-bit type, this makes it statically
unreachable.
on 64-bit archs, there are only superficial changes to the code after
preprocessing. both before and after these changes, these functions
copied their timeout arguments to avoid letting the kernel clobber the
caller's copies. now, the copying also serves to change the type from
userspace timespec to a pair of longs, which makes a difference only
in the 32-bit fallback case, not on 64-bit.
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the issue at hand is that many syscalls require as an argument the
kernel-ABI size of sigset_t, intended to allow the kernel to switch to
a larger sigset_t in the future. previously, each arch was defining
this size in syscall_arch.h, which was redundant with the definition
of _NSIG in bits/signal.h. as it's used in some not-quite-portable
application code as well, _NSIG is much more likely to be recognized
and understood immediately by someone reading the code, and it's also
shorter and less cluttered.
note that _NSIG is actually 65/129, not 64/128, but the division takes
care of throwing away the off-by-one part.
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