Hi,
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:11:40 +0000 (GMT), Riley Williams
<rhw@MemAlpha.CX> said:
>>> My suggestion would be to use the following rule set:
>> What are those rules for?
> They specify how the KERNEL should respond when it finds itself
> running a syscall that needs to return a 32-bit off_t but has a value
> too big to fit in one.
That is already perfectly well defined in the LFS standard. If you open
a file with a 32-bit off_t and the file is larger than 2G, you get
EOVERFLOW. Similarly, extending a fd opened with 32-bit off_t past the
2G boundary returns the same error.
> Providing that's been done for ALL of the utilities on the system,
> this discussion is irrelevant as the proposed scenario could not
> arise. However, if there's just ONE utility that hasn't been compiled
> with that flag (including those supplied in binary-only form) then
> there is the possibility of it happenning.
The worst that will happen is that such a utility will fail with a
clean, well-defined error code.
> Q. What should the kernel do when, in the middle of executing a
> function that returns a 32-bit off_t value,
> My reply can be summarised as follows:
> A. If the value to be returned fits into the 32-bit off_t value,
> return that, otherwise return -ETOOBIG
Please read the standard before continuing with this thread, it already
deals with these issues.
--Stephen
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