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Re: [Qemu-devel] d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation |
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Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:01:43 +0100 |
* Florian Weimer:
> * Adhemerval Zanella:
>
>> On 27/12/2018 16:09, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> * Adhemerval Zanella:
>>>
>>>> Also for glibc standpoint, although reverting it back to use getdents
>>>> syscall for non-LFS mode might fix this issue for architectures that
>>>> provides non-LFS getdents syscall it won't be a fix for architectures
>>>> that still provides off_t different than off64_t *and* only provides
>>>> getdents64 syscall.
>>>>
>>>> Currently we only have nios2 and csky (unfortunately). But since generic
>>>> definition for off_t and off64_t still assumes non-LFS support, all new
>>>> 32-bits ports potentially might carry the issue.
>>>
>>> For csky, we could still change the type of the non-standard d_off
>>> field to long long int. This way, only telldir would have to fail
>>> when truncation is necessary, as mentioned below:
>>
>> I think it makes no sense to continue making non-LFS as default for
>> newer 32 bits ports, the support will be emulated with LFS syscalls.
>
> Sorry, I don't see how this matters. seekdir and telldir are NOT
> affected by LFS.
Ah, right. If struct dirent is 64-bit only, then the d_off member
will be 64 bits as well. But it is unclear whether you can use that
with lseek (probably yes, in its 64-bit variant), and it's unlikely
it's going to work with seekdir because of the POSIX-required long int
type.
Re: [Qemu-devel] d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation, Adhemerval Zanella, 2018/12/27
Re: [Qemu-devel] d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation, Joseph Myers, 2018/12/31
Re: [Qemu-devel] d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation, Dmitry V. Levin, 2018/12/27
Re: [Qemu-devel] d_off field in struct dirent and 32-on-64 emulation, Andy Lutomirski, 2018/12/28