[RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Wed Mar 19 05:53:00 GMT 2014


On Fri 14 Mar 2014 14:18:37 Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:41:48PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > glibc's own fts.h refuses to compile if __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 is defined.
> 
> Known issue:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838
> 
> As stated there, my preference would be deprecation this whole API.
> Applications which need it can get a _working_ (unlike the glibc copy)
> version of this functionality from third-party sources. Gnulib and BSD
> both have working versions that don't have the 32-bit limitation.

so wouldn't the right answer be to import the latest gnulib version ?

is there a preference for fts over ftw ?  i've never actually used either 
myself.
-mike
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