Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:28:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> Subject: Re: MFC request Message-ID: <19990504122829.A77220@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199905041538.IAA15873@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>; from "Bruce A. Mah" on Tue May 4 08:38:14 GMT 1999 References: <199905041538.IAA15873@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
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In the last episode (May 04), Bruce A. Mah said: > I'm wondering what would be the chances of getting a MFC for the > changes from bin/8637? This patch allows fgetpos(3), fsetpos(3), and > ftell(3) to work with file sizes in excess of 2 GB, which I need for > some mods I'm doing to tcpslice(1). I haven't vetted out the manpage > changes, but the code seems to Do The Right Thing (TM) when I've > dropped it into an otherwise-3.1-RELEASE system. I can even confirm that the changes work fine on 2.2.8, since that's what I originally wrote them for :) > It looks like this PR is still open, even though its included patches have > been committed...is this because of the discussion of changes to errno.h? I think the problem was with lib/libc/gen/errlst.c. Here's a snippet from an email Dmitrij Tejblum sent me: Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > I'm afraid, it may confuse programs dynamically linked with old > version of libc, especially on ELF systems. :-( IIRC, NetBSD changed > sys_errlist to be pointer, rather than array, for this reason... -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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