Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:37:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd have expected to see stat() returning -EOVERFLOW, but it isn't there.
> 
> googling around a bit seems to indcate that this might be a glibc issue:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146951
> 
> But the traces are all using stat64() and fstat64().  And why would it
> just start occurring now?

Maybe glibc is using the 64-bit stat calls and returning -EOVERFLOW to
the application when the results from the kernel turn out to be > 32-bit
in size?

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