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

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

[jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org]

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

             Bug #: 14106
           Summary: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 goes outside standard namespace
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
        ReportedBy: jsm28@gcc.gnu.org
                CC: drepper.fsp@gmail.com
    Classification: Unclassified


Building with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 uses names that should be in the user's
namespace.  For example,

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void fopen64 (void) { abort (); }

int
main (void)
{
  fopen ("/dev/null", "r");
  return 0;
}

built with -std=c99 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on x86 aborts.

All the function redirects for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 should be to functions in
the implementation namespace.  This applies to POSIX interfaces as well as to
ISO C ones.

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

[bugdal at aerifal dot cx]

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

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

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

--- Comment #2 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2012-05-14 13:01:44 UTC ---
On Mon, 14 May 2012, bugdal at aerifal dot cx wrote:

> This issue has been bothering me for a long time too, but I never thought to
> report it.

If you have any issues with glibc that can be represented as well-defined 
bugs - specific deficiencies for which it can be clearly assessed whether 
they have been fixed - and they don't have currently open bugs, please 
open (or reopen) bugs for them.  It doesn't matter how minor or obscure or 
hard to fix they are, we should track bugs in the bug database.  They may 
not be fixed particularly quickly - the existing bug backlog may take 
person-years of work across many people to deal with - but they should be 
filed so they are visible to people looking for bugs to fix.

(More open-ended projects for enhancement that don't represent a 
well-defined defect in current glibc may better go on the wiki than in 
Bugzilla; there are "Project TODO" and "Project Wishlist by Developer" 
sections there linking to pages with various suggestions.)

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

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

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

Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

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