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Re: [PATCH] Alpha fixes

To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alpha fixes
From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:52:52 -0700
Cc: libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <20000816183516.H15055@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20000817154741.A2919@twiddle.net> <20000818005744.I24872@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:57:44AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> I know that, the structure size is the same. But the issue is that readdir()
> etc. will not give you -EOVERFLOW if the d_ino does not fit into ino_t which
> will the user program read from the structure, which is bad.

Ah.  Yes, I suppose that is bad.


r~

References:
- [PATCH] Alpha fixes
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: [PATCH] Alpha fixes
  - From: Richard Henderson

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