[PATCH 0/2] Squashing long inodes.

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/05/2014 05:32 AM, Denis Obrezkov wrote:
> we have some legacy programs which couldn't be recompiled at all

Which are those?  Can you give an example?
>
> and programs which couldn't be recompiled with this flag due to their
> nature(mixing 32bit and 64bit things will cause undefined behavior).

That's a problem already.  You can't reliably mix code compiled with 
different settings of FILE_OFFSET_BITS.  We already expose both ABIs, 
and I don't see why the ABI issue would be made worse (or better) if we 
merely changed the default.