Re: Filestreams (and 64bit inodes)

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>]

Greg Banks wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>    4070 29.1% are scripts (shell, perl, whatever)
>>    6598 47.2% don't use any stat() family calls at all
>>    1829 13.1% use 32-bit stat() family interfaces only
>>    1312  9.4% use 64-bit stat64() family interfaces only
>>     180  1.3% use both 32-bit and 64-bit stat() family interfaces
>>
> Ouch.  That's over two thousand executables to patch, rebuild, and ship.
>> list of packages, sorted by the semi-lame "number of files in package
>> which call a 32-bit stat variant" metric:
>>
>> http://sandeen.fedorapeople.org/stat32-ers

struct dirent has an embedded ino_t too, so for completeness we should also
be looking for readdir(), readdir64(), getdirentries(), 
getdirentries64(), etc.

>> I'm going to see if I can't leverage Fedora to clean some of this up.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
> Good luck with that.

Yes good luck :)
(and the plan for statically linked apps? ...)

Cheers

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