[bug#43591] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: glibc-final: Catch all cases of a glibc user not requesting 64-bit offsets and then using readdir.

[Danny Milosavljevic]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:12:11 +0200
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
> +                 ;; Note: We might want to avoid using 64 bit when 
> bootstrapping
> +                 ;; using mescc (since mescc doesn't directly support 64 bit
> +                 ;; values)--but then bootstrapping has to be done on a
> +                 ;; file system other than ext4, or on ext4 with the feature
> +                 ;; "dir_index" disabled.

Or on a real 32 bit machine, where there is no problem with mismatching struct
sizes between emulated guest glibc and host system kernel, because there is no
emulation going on.

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