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

[Joerg Schilling]

James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:

> > FYI, enable_extended_FILE_stdio(3C) is incompatible to many
> > applications, including coreutil. Using a FD > 256 crashes such
> > applications.
>
> "Coreutil"?  As in GNU coreutils?
>
> If there's a problem here, and it's not just broken code in the
> application, then filing bugs would help.  I searched for, but did not
> find, any references to this problem either at any external site or in
> the bug databases.

If you pass a fp with a fd > 255 to code that has been compiled before 
fileno() become a function, this code may crash.

Jörg

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