A sys_poll() ABI tweak

No, int and long _aren't_ the same size on "most" architectures. They're the same size on 32 bit architectures, different on 64 bit. There's a standard for this, which Linux follows (and MacOS X, and most other unix variants):

http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html

Here's the rationale:

http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

And here's the insane legacy reasons Windows decided to do something else instead:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/31/36...

Rob