On May 31, 2015 7:33:28 AM PDT, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >I'm not sure what's best for every one: >1. Push hundreds of patches upstream to add lfs flags; >2. Apply your patch to our glibc ebuilds, fix the corner cases, and go > back to glibc upstream with these data. >
If the changes are made to glibc, would these be under a new symbol version for ABI compatibility, or just be changes to headers to make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 the default? If not, what about binary software? Not saying you haven’t considered the relevant issues; I just haven’t seen binary software brought up on this list yet. -- Christopher Head
