Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] enable transparent LFS

From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 20:53:24 -0400

On 27 May 2015 12:07, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2015 02:51:30 -0400
> Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Make sure we use 64-bit filesystem functions everywhere.  This applies not
> > only to being able to read large files (which generally doesn't apply to
> > us), but also being able to simply stat them (as they might be using large
> > inodes).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  Makefile | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index 35cacc4..9d35ef1 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ ADDLIB+=mpls_ntop.o mpls_pton.o
> >  CC = gcc
> >  HOSTCC = gcc
> >  DEFINES += -D_GNU_SOURCE
> > +# Turn on transparent support for LFS
> > +DEFINES += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> >  CCOPTS = -O2
> >  WFLAGS := -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes
> >  WFLAGS += -Wmissing-declarations -Wold-style-definition -Wformat=2
> 
> I am okay with this, is something specific it fixes or is it just
> general good practice?

general good practice at this point.  we've started Gentoo down the path of 
killing off non-LFS in projects.
-mike