[PATCH] Use *stat64 instead of *stat in installed programs

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Apr 3 14:39:00 GMT 2013


On 04/03/2013 12:03 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> This ensures reliable operation on file systems with inode numbers
>> which do not fit into 32 bits.
>
> Are you sure this fix covers all issues in installed programs related to
> 64-bit inode numbers?
> I haven't checked HEAD yet, but in 2.17 I see a bit more of them
> using non-LFS functions:

These should be harmless because they do not process large files, and 
only 64 bit inode numbers can bite them.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team



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