[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: (forw) Bug#280212: lastlog: fails when high UIDs are present

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
[..]
> Attention was drawn to this bug on IRC today.  Since using a 32-bit index
> for a file that has more than one byte of data per entry makes it very
> possible to have files that exceed a 32-bit file size limit, I agree that
> this is a bug and should be fixed.
>
> Two caveats, however:
>
> - it is not safe to use the 64-bit flags in a program if it also exchange=
s
>  file-related structs with a library that does not have 64-bit support
>  enabled (I don't think this is a problem here)
> - the 64-bit flags don't necessarily have the expected effect on platform=
s
>  that are natively 64-bit -- c.f. bug #280213 (hmm, what a coincidental b=
ug
>  #) on exim.  The safe way to do this seems to be to use the output of
>  "getconf LFS_CFLAGS".

From=20current shadow CVS tree NEWS file:

shadow-4.0.6 -> shadow-4.0.7

[..]
- fixed large file support in lastlog and faillog:
-- added AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro to autoconf,
-- use fseeko() instead fseek() and remove casting file ofsets to unsigned
    long.

So upcomming shadow 4.0.7 will be LFS compliant :^)

kloczek
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