32bit UID support for glibc 2.1.3

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Mon Jan 17 19:14:00 GMT 2000


Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> I'm appending a "clean" patch to implement my proposal.  I check for
> overflow in just two places: st_size and st_blocks.  Both can be
> larger than 32bit - in reality.

These are indeed the only values which can overflow.

> I'm just appending a patch for xstat for i386.  If you agree that this
> is the right solution, I'll do the rest.  Please give me your feedback.

I've applied the patch.  Please provide the rest of the patches when
you're finished.  Thanks,

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