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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fcntl: Add 32bit filesystem mode
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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:23:53 +0200
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* Peter Maydell:

> We open fd 3 to read '.'; we issue the new fcntl, which
> succeeds. Then there's some unrelated stuff operating on
> stdout. Then we do a getdents64(), but the d_off values
> we get back are still 64 bits. The guest binary doesn't
> like those, so it fails. My expectation was that we would
> get back d_off values here that were in the 32 bit range.

What's your file system?

I think not all of them have 32-bit hashes (some of them probably
can't, particularly in the network-based file system case).