strace on FC2 with 64 bit lseek

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Oct 19 19:58:42 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 04:22 +0200, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:

> note that 18446744071562067968 == 0xFFFFFFFF80000000,
> so basically somehow 0x80000000 is turning into 0xFFFFFFFF80000000.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this - or am I totally lost here?

So that probably means strace is missing an "unsigned" modifier
somewhere, and it's doing a sign-extend.

-- 
        Peter




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