Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Maybe we need a mass bug filing for programs not using 64bit file offsets. I think that would be appropriate. At this point, I can't see a valid reason for any package to not

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:48:35AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Agreed. If we can identify all libraries (perhaps with a simple grep over the lintian lab?) containing these types, and make sure LFS is enabled in all of them, it should then be possible to switch once all dependencies are

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 02/09/2009 08:04 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Wed 25 Feb 2009 16:16:53 +0100, a écrit : Anyone up for hacking libc to always fail on the 32bit wrappers for seek, stat, ...? Or looking for binaries with a U lseek ? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Maybe we need a mass bug filing for programs not using 64bit file offsets. I think that would be appropriate. At this point, I can't see a valid reason for any package to not have LFS enabled. Anyone up for hacking libc

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:52:30PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Personally, I would prefer the glibc headers to just set the LFS macros to the 64 bit versions by default, so that rather than taking extra steps to enable LFS, LFS would be the default and you would then need to take extra steps to

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory - as most text editors do - stat() will be only the first of

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/2009 08:04 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory - as most text

Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for a 32‐bit kernel and is run with a 64‐bit kernel. The error can be fixed by

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:46:42AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. (...) The error can be fixed by compiling Jed with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Should I set this option for all 32‐bit builds or does it have

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread sean finney
hi, On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:58:43PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I'd think you should enable it for all 32 bit builds; it is, I think, a step in having support for large files (files bigger than 2 or 4 gigabytes), something we wanted to have for... woody. more specifically, what i

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/08/2009 04:46 AM, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi, I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for a 32‐bit kernel and is run with a

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 10:46 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi, I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for a 32‐bit kernel and

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory - as most text editors do - stat() will be only the first of its problems. Old vi was able to work with files