On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 03:02:53PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Oh! I thought most distributors built their 32-bit distros with
>> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 these days? Am I wrong? (I don't have any
>> 32-bit systems handy to sample from.)
>
> I think some build systems try to enforce it, but last time Eric Sandeen
> checked we still had lots of packages not picking it up.
Okay. I trimmed it back close to your original text:
BUGS
All of the APIs described in this man page are not safe when
compiling a program using the LFS APIs on 32-bit systems (e.g.,
when compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
(Okay?)
Cheers,
Michael
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