64-bit stat (or not) in 32-bit Fedora binaries

[Petr Pisar]

On 2013-02-19, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:07PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
>> EOVERFLOW
>>       (stat()) path refers to a file whose size cannot be  represented
>>       in  the type off_t.  This can occur when an application compiled
>>       on a 32-bit platform without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 calls stat()
>>       on a file whose size exceeds (1<<31)-1 bits.
>> 
>> EOVERFLOW
>>       A value to be stored would overflow one of the  members  of  the
>>       stat structure.
>
> OK -- I must have an older version because the second paragraph
> is completely missing here.  But good to know that this at least
> has been fixed.
>
First paragrph is from stat(2), second paragraph from stat(3p). It's
good to read POSIX pages to know what's portable.

> Does your man page still include an example that casts st_ino to a
> long?
>
Yes, stat(2) still shows:

printf("I-node number:            %ld\n", (long) sb.st_ino);

which is ridiculous because types.h(0p) defines ino_t as unsigned.

-- Petr