Re: Filestreams (and 64bit inodes)

[Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> Heh :)  At first I was just going to correlate with st_ino users to cut
> it down, but then I learned that glibc will actually give you an
> EOVERFLOW if, say st_ino overflows, even if you were only going to check
> st_mode.  :(  So pretty much everything needs fixing.
>   
Of course. There's no way for the app to tell glibc that the app doesn't
care about st_ino, so glibc must assume that glibc needs to return an
accurate st_ino.  The alternative is to return the lower 32 bits of
st_ino, thus causing silent subtle failures in the very small number of
applications which actually do something with st_ino.  This is what
glibc used to do back when I first started tracking the issue.
> (FWIW I gathered statfs/statvfs calls, too...)
>
>   
Yes.

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