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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:31:05 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha
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Ivan,

I just backed it on my BK repository.

Please test now.


On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:

> Hi Marcelo, Alan,
>
> IIRC, the problem is that BSD and OSF readv/writev(2) manuals
> explicitly talked of 32 bit iov_len, thus allowing the application
> to pass junk in an upper half of the 64 bit word.
> This change broke widely used netscape and acrobat reader,
> please revert it until we have a better solution:
>
> <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (02/06/06 1.537.2.37)
> 	[PATCH] PATCH; make readv/writev SuS compliant
>
> Ivan.
>

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