[Fwd: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351]

[Joerg Schilling]

"I. Szczesniak" <iszczesniak at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It's also lifted if you call enable_extended_FILE_stdio(3C), use the
> >  extendedFILE.so.1 preload, or 'F' is used as the last character in the
> >  fopen(3C) mode string.
>
> FYI, enable_extended_FILE_stdio(3C) is incompatible to many
> applications, including coreutil. Using a FD > 256 crashes such
> applications.

I would expect it to be incompatible to any precompiled code that asumes that 
fileno() is a macro bscause it has been at compile time.

Jörg

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