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Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem



Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:

> Previously David N. Welton wrote:

> > Right, so how do we fix this?  It is our problem, in that we need
> > to make the software we distribute work together.  But are you
> > also saying that upstream shouldn't be setting that bit in their
> > header file?

> As long as the API (and ABI) never exports things like struct stat
> and offset_t (ie things that are affected by enabling LFS) it should
> not matter if you link things that are compiled with LFS with things
> that are not.

It wouldn't cause problems if you did stat64(&foo) where foo is a
regular 'struct stat'?

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