[PATCH] Fix Linux fcntl OFD locks for non-LFS architectures (BZ#20251)

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Jun 1 20:50:00 GMT 2018


On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> It is not really new, since for architectures with default LFS support this is
> transparent and for architectures with non-default LFS my understanding is 
> functions with *64 suffix are expected to handle cancellation as the non-LFS.

*64 functions are generally expected to be analogous with the 
corresponding non-LFS functions, yes.  I think the new fcntl64 API still 
merits a specific NEWS entry, just like other new function APIs.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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