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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2020-01-03 14:19:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2020-01-03 14:19:15 +0100 |
| commit | 5f62ea4ee2c43383411f895cd323e3c67db8eca7 (patch) | |
| tree | b2cf9a09bd266db4861b138b4b9ff671346068c4 /m4 | |
| parent | 74cdf7d6063d1d8586f8673075d93516ce0ac0ac (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-5f62ea4ee2c43383411f895cd323e3c67db8eca7.tar.gz | |
doc: Mention the 64-bit inode number problem.
* m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Mention that this macro fixes the
64-bit inode number problem.
* doc/posix-functions/stat.texi: Mention that this module fixes the
64-bit inode number problem.
* doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi: Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/fstat.texi: Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/readdir.texi: Add more details.
* doc/posix-functions/readdir_r.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4')
| -rw-r--r-- | m4/largefile.m4 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/m4/largefile.m4 b/m4/largefile.m4 index 40b16bc0e5..e381339c40 100644 --- a/m4/largefile.m4 +++ b/m4/largefile.m4 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ # Enable large files on systems where this is not the default. +# Enable support for files on Linux file systems with 64-bit inode numbers. # Copyright 1992-1996, 1998-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation @@ -73,6 +74,9 @@ rm -rf conftest*[]dnl # one must use special compiler options to get large-file access to work. # For more details about this brain damage please see: # http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html +# Additionally, on Linux file systems with 64-bit inodes a file that happens +# to have a 64-bit inode number cannot be accessed by 32-bit applications on +# Linux x86/x86_64. This can occur with file systems such as XFS and NFS. AC_DEFUN([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE], [AC_ARG_ENABLE(largefile, [ --disable-largefile omit support for large files]) |