From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: handygewinnspiel@gmx.de, rjw@sisk.pl, HWerner4@gmx.de,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:38:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113203843.GJ29283@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113113700.776a94b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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?
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090112190420.51f75853@pedra.chehab.org>
[not found] ` <20090112132130.6c932b85.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[not found] ` <20090112220624.4fbfee34@pedra.chehab.org>
[not found] ` <20090112162337.318dd61d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-13 18:47 ` [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken? handygewinnspiel
2009-01-13 18:47 ` handygewinnspiel
2009-01-13 18:59 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-13 19:17 ` handygewinnspiel
2009-01-13 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-13 20:02 ` handygewinnspiel
2009-01-13 20:02 ` handygewinnspiel
2009-01-13 20:38 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-01-14 18:29 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-14 21:19 ` wk
2009-01-14 21:24 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-14 21:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 21:40 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-14 23:00 ` Kay Sievers
2009-01-15 1:54 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-14 21:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 21:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14 21:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 21:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 22:57 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-01-14 22:57 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-01-18 22:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-18 22:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-14 21:41 ` wk
2009-01-14 22:30 ` Dave Chinner
2009-01-15 19:41 ` wk
2009-01-15 19:41 ` wk
2009-01-15 22:23 ` Dave Chinner
2009-01-10 10:27 handygewinnspiel
[not found] ` <20090110103700.107530@gmx.net>
2009-01-10 11:07 ` wk
2009-01-10 18:21 ` wk
2009-01-12 5:49 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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