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Re: [PATCH] Fix Linux fcntl OFD locks for non-LFS architectures (BZ#20251)
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 20:50:08 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix Linux fcntl OFD locks for non-LFS architectures (BZ#20251)
- References: <1522877210-27934-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> <36d1d0db-8661-5476-7e42-1a7015f4c766@redhat.com> <b4364cd6-0416-0665-aafb-09345b3f00af@linaro.org>
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> It is not really new, since for architectures with default LFS support this is
> transparent and for architectures with non-default LFS my understanding is
> functions with *64 suffix are expected to handle cancellation as the non-LFS.
*64 functions are generally expected to be analogous with the
corresponding non-LFS functions, yes. I think the new fcntl64 API still
merits a specific NEWS entry, just like other new function APIs.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com