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Re: [glibc PATCH] fcntl: put F_OFD_* constants under #ifdef __USE_FILE_OFFSET64
Hi!
> > So yeah, I think what I proposed before would probably be fine. But now
> > that Michael pushed the issue, it's dawned on me that we may be able to
> > get away with supporting it better if we turn the compatability
> > mechanism on its head and use F_OFD_*32 constants in the non-LFS case.
>
> That's rather confusing to programmers, though.
>
> We then have:
>
> F_OFD_SETLK always 64-bit
> F_SETLK 32-bit or 64-bit
> F_SETLK64 always 64-bit (not recommended)
> F_OFD_SETLK32 always 32-bit
It's even worse, the F_OFD_SETLK32 in the proposed patch behaves exactly
as F_SETLK so it's 32-bit or 64-bit depending on sizeof(long) in the
kernel, that is because the compat fcntl64 converts struct flock from
userspace to kernel struct flock and just call sys_fcntl() with the cmd
it has. So in the end if you call fcntl with F_OFD_SETLK32 on 64bit
kernel it expects flock64.
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz