Christoph, On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Should this perhaps better read "not safe on 32-bit systems"? > +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 Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
