linux-kernel - Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:38:43 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	handygewinnspiel@....de, rjw@...k.pl, HWerner4@....de,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, mchehab@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:37:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd have expected to see stat() returning -EOVERFLOW, but it isn't there.
> 
> googling around a bit seems to indcate that this might be a glibc issue:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146951
> 
> But the traces are all using stat64() and fstat64().  And why would it
> just start occurring now?

Maybe glibc is using the 64-bit stat calls and returning -EOVERFLOW to
the application when the results from the kernel turn out to be > 32-bit
in size?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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