Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] xen{trace/analyze}: don't use 64bit versions of libc functions

[Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El 22/06/15 a les 12.09, George Dunlap ha escrit:
> On 06/22/2015 10:59 AM, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
>> El 22/06/15 a les 11.08, George Dunlap ha escrit:
>>> On 06/19/2015 09:58 AM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>>> This is not needed, neither encouraged. Configure already checks
>>>> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS and appends it when needed, so that the right functions
>>>> are used. Also remove the usage of loff_t and O_LARGEFILE for the same
>>>> reason.
>>>
>>> Just so I understand -- are you saying that configure at the tools
>>> directory level will notice that Linux can handle 64-bit file operations
>>> and use them automatically?
>>
>> Yes, according to the man page [1]:
>>
>> "Over time, increases in the size of the stat structure have led to
>> three successive versions of stat(): sys_stat() (slot __NR_oldstat),
>> sys_newstat() (slot __NR_stat), and sys_stat64() (new in kernel 2.4;
>> slot __NR_stat64). The glibc stat() wrapper function hides these details
>> from applications, invoking the most recent version of the system call
>> provided by the kernel, and repacking the returned information if
>> required for old binaries. Similar remarks apply for fstat() and lstat()."
> 
> OK, if you can confirm that you've actually tested this on a file larger
> than 4GiB, then:

No, I have only build tested it since I was trying to unbreak the build.
I don't think I will have time to test this until tomorrow, sorry for
the delay.


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