On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Maybe we need a mass bug filing for programs not using 64bit file > offsets. I think that would be appropriate. At this point, I can't see a valid reason for any package to not have LFS enabled. > Anyone up for hacking libc to always fail on the 32bit wrappers for > seek, stat, ...? Well, breaking old code might be considered bad. This would break *all* binaries using the old 32-bit ABI. Personally, I would prefer the glibc headers to just set the LFS macros to the 64 bit versions by default, so that rather than taking extra steps to enable LFS, LFS would be the default and you would then need to take extra steps to disable it. i.e. just default _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to 64 rather than 32. If someone really, really, wanted 32 bit file offsets, they could just set it back to 32 again. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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