Re: move O_LARGEFILE forcing to filp_open()

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sun Jul 04 2004 - 12:29:52 EST


On Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 18:15, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>>> Your patch is also necessary; thanks for covering these cases.

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:22:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I'm not sure if you understood the intention of compat_sys_open
>> right. Old 32 bit applications assume they are not using O_LARGEFILE,
>> so you can't switch it on unconditionally in filp_open() for those
>> cases. With your patch applied, sys_open and compat_sys_open would
>> be identical again, which reverses the point of my patch.
>> What is need is a way to turn on O_LARGEFILE on 64 bit archs for
>> every use of filp_open _except_ from compat_sys_open.

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 10:27:08AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Oh, that's easy, just shove the MAX_NON_LFS check into compat_sys_open().

BTW, for some reason that's what I thought you were doing in your patch.


-- wli
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