Re: [Linux PATCH] fcntl: add new F_OFD_*32 constants and handle them appropriately

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> (I'd still worry about invisible breakage of _applications_ due to
> e.g. assuming sizeof(off_t) <= sizeof(size_t), but there's probably
> nothing the _library_ can do about that.)

We have the statement from the previous discussion that the change would 
break INN but distributions already dealt with LFS issues for it 
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00354.html>, but I expect 
that's the rare case, and not a significant argument against making the 
change.

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Joseph S. Myers
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