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Re: more questions about LFS



Previously Emil Pedersen wrote:
> If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other syscall names
> (e.g. fseek64() instead of fseek(), ...)?  I assume that's the case and
> necessary for compatibility.

No, glibc does that for you.

> If the program don't use large files they should work, without
> recompiling, right?

Yes.

> The reason I ask is that some program seems to have problem with
> directories containing large files (cron report bellow), but I really
> don't see why. 

The getdents syscall encountering data it can't represent in this case.
strace the program and you'll see what happens exactly.

Wichert.

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