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Re: d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation
On 04/01/2019 09:10, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adhemerval Zanella:
>
>> My point is why still use non-LFS interfaces as default for new 32 bits ports
>> when kernel has moved on a long time ago. From glibc standpoint tt requires
>> support two entrypoints with different semantic for the same function which
>> in the end will use the same syscall (besides the inherent issue with non-LFS
>> support).
>
> We could perhaps announce in the glibc 2.29 NEWS file that a future
> release of glibc will switch the default to LFS, with a plan for the
> future to eliminate non-LFS interfaces completely (from the programming
> interface).
It sounds reasonable to me.