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

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Message #92 received at 43591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
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.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:12:37 +0200

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> My patch
> doesn't change anything that users experience at runtime and basically just
> prevents developers from compiling something that is using readdir without
> thinking about large files first (because they HAVE TO if their programs run
> on a host kernel that has bigger d_off--there's no sane way around it).

And just to be clear, they still SHOULD choose whether or not to support
large files even if the host kernel is 32 bit (!!!!)--see table.  It's
just less common there.

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