I know..
> we have people with deployed utilities which call the afs system call,
> because, well, it's the AFS system call. it would be good to maintain
> compatibility with those, which means we should
> a) keep using the same system call if we can
> b) if so, keep using "long".
AFS is currently not in mainline. You request a new feature, in this
case an optional syscall that only was reserved previously. In
general we don|t merge random stuff asis in the kernel just because it
happens to exist. There is no reason you canb't add a sane API
for openafs 1.3
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