[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#1069450: socket_wrapper and the time_t 64-bit is hard

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:03:22 +1200 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
wrote:
> Just a warning that trying to brute force a fix for this is likely to
> end badly.  A lot of developer time was spent to get to this current
> delicate situation, which relied on the narrow behaviour that is now
> eliminated by the Debian time_t 64 transition rules. 
> 
> Socket-wrapper starts with:
> 
> /*
>  * Make sure we do not redirect (f)open(at)() or fcntl() to their
64bit
>  * variants
>  */
> #undef _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
> 
> This was added in 
>
https://gitlab.com/cwrap/socket_wrapper/-/commit/bbe14cc3200ca553b13ed49357e2e88ba487eeaa
> 
> Setting  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 will break the fcntl64 wrapper and so
> break Samba's tests. 
> 
> I don't know if there is a good fix for this actually.  
> 
> Andrew Bartlett

How about simply dropping armv7 support from socket-wrapper and uid-
wrapper? Having architectures that are actually used being blocked by
these issues is suboptimal at best

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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