Re: LFS on Red Hat 7.2 [was (no subject)]

[Al Sparks <data345 yahoo com>]

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:
> Al Sparks wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing you really mean 2.4.18.  And files >2GB certainly do
> work.  Some utilities won't deal with it and will only report 2GB.
> 

Yes I am.  Thanks for the correction.


> > Other things I've picked up are that binaries have to be re-compiled to
> > work with LFS.
> 
> That's correct.  The vast majority of utilities that come with Linux
> are already fixed, but other 3rd party stuff may not be.
> 
> > Is there an easy way to do this on an existing system?  What do you
> > have to do on a start from scratch system to get LFS to work?
> 
> Which programs are you having problems with?  You can specifically
> download the source for those programs, verify that all calls
> dealing with filesystems use "off_t" as the file size variable, and
> rebuilding it.  The problem was when people used "int" rather than
> "off_t" as, say, the second argument to an lseek() call.  An int
> (32 bits) will only let you go up to 2GB (a 32-bit integer has
> 4G values, but remember that half of them are negative).  off_t
> is an unsigned long long (unsigned 64 bits) on an x86 processor.
> 

I'm using 

$ proftpd -v
 - ProFTPD Version 1.2.4


> > A list administrative question:  Is there a way to search the list
> > archives at Red Hat?
> 
> Go to the URL at the bottom of this message and you'll find lots of
> tools.

Thanks.

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  === Al

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