Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01T23:41:20Z

Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de> writes:

> Hmm, after compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 it works fine. But why does
> it work without this option on a 32bit kernel, but not on a 64bit kernel?

Most likely the inode number (which is the only non-filesize related item
that is different between struct stat and struct stat64) overflows ino_t.

Andreas.

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