Bug 73366
| Summary: | Perl built with LFS support, Apache without | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Joe Orton <jorton> |
| Component: | mod_perl | Assignee: | Joe Orton <jorton> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-10-18 14:16:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Perl is compiled with LFS enabled, and uses a 64-bit "off_t"; Apache is compiled without LFS, so uses a 32-bit off_t. The impact of this problem seems surprisingly (but thankfully) limited, there is one reference to it in docs/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR/PerlIO.pod: seek($fh, $offset, $whence); If "$offset" is zero, "seek()" works normally. However if "$offset" is non-zero and Perl has been compiled with with large files support ("-Duselarge- files"), whereas APR wasn't, this function will croak. This is because largefile size "Off_t" simply cannot fit into a non-largefile size "apr_off_t". I don't expect there is much we can do about this, but worth noting the problem.