[glibc PATCH] fcntl: put F_OFD_* constants under #ifdef __USE_FILE_OFFSET64

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Mon Nov 14 13:45:00 GMT 2016


Hi!
> >> To be clear, that approach was NAK'ed by Christoph (and I think that's
> >> a good thing, actually -- one more nail in the non-LFS coffin). I think
> >> what we want merged into glibc is this patch that I sent late on
> >> Thursday:
> >>
> >>     [glibc PATCHv2] fcntl: don't define OFD lock constants for 32-bit builds with small file offsets
> >>
> >> We'll also need your patch to the fcntl(2) manpage as well, but that's
> >> a separate problem.
> > 
> > Hmm, the patch for man-pages should be updated as well. We need
> > somethign as:
> > 
> > ...
> > This lock  type  is  Linux-specific,  and  available since Linux 3.15.
> > On 32bit platform _FILE_OFFSET_BITS must defined to 64 (before including
> > any header files) to make these locks available.
> > ...
> > 
> > Michael should I send updated patch or will you take care of this?
> 
> I can do it, or you can. At the moment, I'm just holding off until I 
> see what is accepted into glibc.

Ping.

Is there any resolve for this?

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz



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