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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:02:14 +0100
From: handygewinnspiel@gmx.de
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Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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> > 
> > Attached two strace logs, one for the failed version, one for the
> working version.
> > 
> 
> I'd have expected to see stat() returning -EOVERFLOW, but it isn't there.
> 
> googling around a bit seems to indcate that this might be a glibc issue:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146951
> 
> But the traces are all using stat64() and fstat64().  And why would it
> just start occurring now?

If that would be glibc related i would expect that other programs will fail with the very same behaviour - but i didnt notice that up to now. Nearly all programs are using glibc.

Since the error doesnt come up with 2.6.27.9 what changed afterwards which may touch that source?

GNU C Library 2004-07-01 release version 2.3.4, by Roland McGrath et al.
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        GNU libio by Per Bothner
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