As pointed out during a recent discussion on libc-hacker the fts(3) APIs can't be used with large file offsets: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838 The manpage should mention this. Note: the text probably needs some better formatting at least, but I couldn't come up with proper markup for compiler arguments. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> diff --git a/man3/fts.3 b/man3/fts.3 index 9374463..2b14c0d 100644 --- a/man3/fts.3 +++ b/man3/fts.3 @@ -774,6 +774,10 @@ The options were invalid. These functions are available in Linux since glibc2. .SH CONFORMING TO 4.4BSD. +.SH BUGS +All the APIs described in this manpage are not safe when compiling +a program using the LFS APIs, e.g. by using +-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. .\" The following statement is years old, and seems no closer to .\" being true -- mtk .\" The -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
