Subject: Re: [bug#43591] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: glibc-final: Catch all cases of a glibc user not requesting 64-bit offsets and then using readdir.

From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:24:50 +0200

On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:17:14 +0200
Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> wrote:

> As mentioned in that issue, and which this patch states on no uncertain
> terms, a workaround is to use -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on 32-bit platforms.

That is not a workaround.  That is the correct fix.

The kernel uses 64 bit offsets on 32-bit platforms anyway.

So either they don't ask the kernel questions they don't want to know the
answer to, or they use 64 bit offsets, too.