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Re: [PATCH] AIX NFS patches part1

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: [PATCH] AIX NFS patches part1
Date 2018-09-20 19:03 -0400
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <mailman.1045.1537484600.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 9/20/18 6:57 PM, gasha@pie-dabas.net wrote:
> 
> Thanks for pointing to old threads.
> I was able to find root cause of this issue, somewhere in LKML.
> And was forced to patch and recompile some more freeware tools, like "tar"
> and "make", used in our development environment.
> 
> Sad truth about all that - lack of consistent LARGEFILE support in GNU
> header files and Makefiles/autoconfig/etc...
> 
> There is no magic - someone has to write some code between #if and #endif :(

Yes. My answer assumes you're using the `standard' AIX header files, which
should #define opendir as opendir64 if _LARGE_FILES is defined. Similarly
for dirent64/readdir64/closedir64.

If you're using replacement GNU header files, yes, similar code will have
to be in those header files.

Chet
-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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Re: [PATCH] AIX NFS patches part1 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-09-20 19:03 -0400

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