[Dovecot] fallocate and glibc 2.10

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.10.2010, at 19.22, Paul Howarth wrote:

> In glibc 2.10 (32 bit) fallocate() exists but fallocate64() doesn't.
> When _FILE_OFFSET_BITS==64, fallocate() is a redirect to fallocate64()
> and the program can't be linked (fails to find symbol fallocate64).
> See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/500487

Yeah, I knew about it happening also on Ubuntu 9.10.

> Attached patch detects fallocate() more robustly to guard against this
> problem.


A lot of code just to work around a bug that apparently only exists in Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 11. Is there a reason for anyone to be actually using either of them? I was thinking about just ignoring this problem.