2008/9/11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>Do you have any idea if this fix can be "installed" on a solaris 9 ? >>can I e.g. take the fixed stidio (libc ?) and the kerberos library and >>install on Solaris 9 ? > > Only if you have the Solaris 9 source; the libc stdio bits dealing with > FILE *s haven't changed all that much but you can't use the Solaris 10 > or OpenSolaris libc because the rest is rather different from Solaris 9.
Ok :-) >>As I understand it 32bit solaris (9) has the fopen issue because some >>field holding the file descriptor is only a byte long. Just for >>curiosities sake: I assume this field is still only byte sized, so how >>does this F mode help ? > > It's no longer kept in fp->_file but that means there's a problem > with older binaries (i.e., by adding a "F" to the mode string you > are guaranteeing that you will not look at/touch fp->_file.) Thanx for the explanation. best regards henrik _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
