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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!borchert From: borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 2 Dec 1996 19:22:36 GMT Organization: University of Ulm, SAI, Germany Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57va9s$gfo@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329c06bc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57res5$j7k@panix2.panix.com> <casper.32a1813c@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57v6em$p73@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91150 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1654 comp.unix.internals:11413 On 2 Dec 1996 18:16:54 GMT, Nate Williams <nate@see.my.signature> wrote: > In article <casper.32a1813c@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, > Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: > >>So you're then admitting that if I do it your way I can *still* experience > >>file corruption because of programs compiled for 32-bit off_t, aren't you? > > > >Only if: > > a 32bit aware program opens a large file and hands it off > > to a non-32 bit aware program > > > > > >Fds are inherited frequently, of course, but I've never seen a DB program > >having a separately compiled frontend or shell open its database files. > > You've never used Informix then, one of the big three. I re-compile my > application all the time, but my Informix db software still uses the > same front-end it always used. Do you want to tell us that Informix inherits a fd of its database to your application? Please read Caspers question again -- I really doubt that Informix or any other DB system hands out fds of its database files to frontends or applications. Andreas. -- Andreas Borchert, Universitaet Ulm, SAI, Helmholtzstr. 18, 89069 Ulm, Germany E-Mail: borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de WWW: http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/borchert/ PGP key available via ``finger borchert@laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de''