Bug 550438

Summary:	dev-lang/python-exec: configure should call AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	471102

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-05-26 06:36:01 UTC

the current python code uses 32bit filesystem funcs which can lead to random failures on some filesystems.  please add AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to the configure after the call to AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to fix.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2015-05-26 07:27:51 UTC

Could you provide some article explaining why? Out of pure curiosity, since python-exec is never going to read more than ~50 bytes out of a file.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-05-26 07:48:18 UTC

please see the blocking bug.  it isn't just about read/write; stat fails too.

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2015-05-26 09:35:13 UTC

+*python-exec-2.0.2 (26 May 2015)
+
+  26 May 2015; Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> +python-exec-2.0.2.ebuild:
+  Version bump. The new version updates script comments (bug #524342), fixes
+  off-by-one error in file reading, and enables largefile support (bug #550438).