Re: kern/43908

[Arto Huusko <arto.huusko%pp2.inet.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43908; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Arto Huusko <arto.huusko%pp2.inet.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/43908
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:32:02 +0200

 Presumably, when running 32 bit glibc on top of a really 32 bit linux
 kernel, linux never returns inode numbers over 32 bits. So not a glibc
 bug.
 
 However, unless smaller inode numbers for tmpfs are not possible, I
 understand this a bug that is not feasible to fix in NetBSD's
 linux32 emulation. To mitigate this:
 
   - document this in bugs section of compat_linux
   - possibly warn about this in the same way as with too large
     directory offset cookies