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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2020-02-21 17:23:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2020-02-21 17:24:19 -0800 |
| commit | 98d67d660d0f1e5ecb6549d2daadbd4257570d27 (patch) | |
| tree | 64b02fbde831d7b25b1d95e7d1fdfc3e7438152f /lib | |
| parent | 2864a5dbbfeb5383451ff1858cc16cdae05d738c (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-98d67d660d0f1e5ecb6549d2daadbd4257570d27.tar.gz | |
Mention 32-bit GNU/Linux 64-bit inodes
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE):
In a comment, mention 64-bit inode problem on 32-bit GNU/Linux.
This is taken from Gnulib.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/autoconf/specific.m4 | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/specific.m4 b/lib/autoconf/specific.m4 index 1c41832d..2809c009 100644 --- a/lib/autoconf/specific.m4 +++ b/lib/autoconf/specific.m4 @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ rm -rf conftest*[]dnl # one must use special compiler options to get large-file access to work. # For more details about this brain damage please see: # http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html +# Additionally, on Linux file systems with 64-bit inodes a file that happens +# to have a 64-bit inode number cannot be accessed by 32-bit applications on +# Linux x86/x86_64. This can occur with file systems such as XFS and NFS. AC_DEFUN([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE], [AC_ARG_ENABLE(largefile, [ --disable-largefile omit support for large files]) |