* Andreas Schwab via Libc-alpha: > On Mär 02 2023, Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Another thing that's different is that when off_t grew in the 1990s, >> people said they needed a wider off_t RIGHT NOW, because programs wouldn't >> work on large inputs otherwise. > > That is only true for rather few selected programs. It depends on the system configuration. For some file systems, inode numbers outside the 32-bit range can be quite common. This impacts 32-bit applications even if they never use ino_t because functions such as fstat and readdir cannot know that these fields are unused. We've been working around this for our 32-bit builders with special file system configuration because like many, we do not build everything with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Thanks, Florian
