statvfs() weirdness on alpha (RH-7.2 and CentOS-4.2)

Tue Nov 15 15:46:46 UTC 2005

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:13:27PM +0300, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> 
> I submitted a bug report to glibc bugzilla. The problem is (with recent 
> findings from Bert de Bruijn) I am not sure what correct
> fix should be. Back in 1999 the size of fields were changed from 64 bits 
> to 32.

Did he tell you why?  An attempt of compatibility with 32-bit programs
compiled for DU?  Those were not linked with glibc anyway.  Some other
reasons?  What is a status of fields in question on other 64-bit
platforms served by glibc?

   MIchal