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Re: HEADSUP everyone: 32/64bit changes are commited
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:15:16 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: HEADSUP everyone: 32/64bit changes are commited
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Amazing job, Corinna. Truly amazing.
> >
> Yes, great work. Corinna.
>
> > Thanks but it wasn't quite complete. This morning I've rebuild the
> > whole source tree from scratch and suddenly ranlib didn't work anymore
> > with this version. I figured out that I missed several off_t and fpos_t
> > type clashes in newlib :-(
> >
> > I've just posted the patch to newlib (Subject: "[PATCH] Avoid more
> > problems with type clashes"). Everybody who wants to build Cygwin
> > from CVS should apply this patch as long as it's not approved and
> > commited.
>
> FYI, I tried to rebuild everything last night on Windows but the dll build
> failed because fopen64 and friends were missing from libc (although stdio64
> is there and I ran configure on newlib).
>
> Also I realized recently we are heading for trouble with lastlog.
> It's really an array of ~200 byte structures indexed by uid. Currently
> its max size is ~ 200 x 64k = 13MB. With the change it can be 800 GB or so.
>
> ssh supports (on the fly) lastlog as a directory, with per user files,
> but I don't think inetutils does. Not sure what to do.
>
> Pierre
Pierre,
First off, there is a patch (in?) that allows sparse files on NT+, so it
may not be that much of a deal on those systems (unless the indices are
dense enough, which is not going to happen). Is the above likely to be a
problem on Win9x?
Secondly, is lastlog accessed through a uniform interface (library), or
does every application implement its own?
Igor
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