[Bug libc/14106] _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 goes outside standard namespace

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14106

Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2012-05-14 12:39:41 UTC ---
This issue has been bothering me for a long time too, but I never thought to
report it. The only solution I see is to rename all the *64 functions to __*64
and update the headers accordingly. Of course aliases would need to be kept
with the old names, and _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE would need to expose the old names.
Solving the problem also has the unfortunate consequence that newly-linked
binaries will depend on a new glibc even if they otherwise would have worked
with very old versions.

Nonetheless, I agree that something should be done about this bug. Using
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is the only viable configuration on a modern system. (A
mixed system with some binaries compiled with 32-bit offsets and others with
64-bit offsets has dangerous issues with file descriptor inheritance; see bug
#13047.) And it seems a real shame for the only viable configuration to be
non-conformant in this regard.

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