Re: monit 3.2 proc and fd problems (solaris)

[Christian Hopp]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Martin Pala wrote:

> First problem related description (from solaris 64-bit developer's guide):
>
> ---
> What Does EOVERFLOW Mean?
>
> The EOVERFLOW return value is returned from a system call whenever one
> or more fields of the data structure used to pass information out of the
> kernel is too small to hold the value.
>
> A number of 32-bit system calls now return EOVERFLOW when faced with
> large objects on the 64-bit kernel. While this was already true when
> dealing with large files, the fact that daddr_t, dev_t, time_t, and its
> derivative types struct timeval and timespec_t now contain 64-bit
> quantities might allow more EOVERFLOW return values to be observed by
> 32-bit applications.
> ---

==> monit has to be compiled with a compiler which produces 64bit binary?

does gcc-3.1+ do it???

CHopp

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