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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Yoav Zach <yoav_zach@yahoo.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yoav Zach <yoav.zach@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Don't force O_LARGEFILE for 32 bit processes on ia64 - 2.6.12-rc3
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:45:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42801232.8000009@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050509214710.419.qmail@web50610.mail.yahoo.com>

Yoav Zach wrote:
> In ia64 kernel, the O_LARGEFILE flag is forced when
> opening a file. This is problematic for execution of
> 32 bit processes, which are not largefile aware, either
> by SW emulation or by HW execution.
> For such processes, the problem is two-fold:
> 1) When trying to open a file that is larger than 4G
>    the operation should fail, but it's not
> 2) Writing to offset larger than 4G should fail, but
>    it's not

O_LARGEFILE works great on my 32-bit platform.

Is this an ABI bug?  O_LARGEFILE should be OK for 32-bit processes.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 21:47 [PATCH]: Don't force O_LARGEFILE for 32 bit processes on ia64 - 2.6.12-rc3 Yoav Zach
2005-05-10  1:45 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-05-10  5:15   ` tony.luck
2005-05-10  6:47 ` Anton Blanchard
2005-05-10 16:15   ` tony.luck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-10 21:45 Zach, Yoav

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