Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Ivan Kokshaysky  <[e-mail]> said:
>IIRC, the problem is that BSD and OSF readv/writev(2) manuals
>explicitly talked of 32 bit iov_len, thus allowing the application
>to pass junk in an upper half of the 64 bit word.
>This change broke widely used netscape and acrobat reader,
>please revert it until we have a better solution:

The Tru64 4.0G and 5.1A man pages say that if the sum of the iov_len
values is negative or overflows a 32 bit integer that EINVAL will be
returned, but I think this is only for the backwards compatible
interface where iov_len was defined as int.  It is now defined as size_t
and the rest of the man page never says anything about a 32 bit iov_len
and the upper half being ignored.
-- 
Chris Adams <[e-mail]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.