Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 2004 10:27:08 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: move O_LARGEFILE forcing to filp_open() |
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On Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 18:15, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Your patch is also necessary; thanks for covering these cases.
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:22:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I'm not sure if you understood the intention of compat_sys_open > right. Old 32 bit applications assume they are not using O_LARGEFILE, > so you can't switch it on unconditionally in filp_open() for those > cases. With your patch applied, sys_open and compat_sys_open would > be identical again, which reverses the point of my patch. > What is need is a way to turn on O_LARGEFILE on 64 bit archs for > every use of filp_open _except_ from compat_sys_open.
Oh, that's easy, just shove the MAX_NON_LFS check into compat_sys_open().
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