Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fcntl64 fix

[Stuart Anderson]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> Primarily, I also thought that problem is in padding, because, without the
> patch F_GETLK, on 32-bit target recognises as F_GETLK64 on 64-bit host.
> It's happen because on 64-bit host and 32-bit target F_GETLK == F_GETLK64 ==
> TARGET_F_GETLK. So if you're using qemu-arm on 64-bit host and a target eabi
> program calls fcntl(fd,F_GETLK,...), target_eabi_flock64 will be used by
> mistake. Disabling padding can helps in some trivial cases to pass
> pseudo-correct args to fcntl. I guess this part of patch wrong.
>
> Stuart, am I right?

Yes, this is a good summary of the trap I initially fell into.


                                  Stuart

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