Re: monit 3.2 proc and fd problems (solaris)

[Christian Hopp]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Martin Pala wrote:

> Christian Hopp wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, it is needed to use 64-bit compiler. My solaris development system
> is build on 32-bit gcc (from sunfreeware) - i'll try to upgrade it.

I have nearly everything ready my compiler is -V3.1 that support 64bit.  I
made a libfl for 64bit and my openssl is nearly done.  I can give you a
64bit binary for testing if you wish.

CHopp


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