Re: Patch 1300 & rpm issue with 1.3.0

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 06:57, Foris, Jim (MED) wrote:

> 
> Turns out that information is in my original posting:
> 
>      4144  write(2, "write: 0xbffed120, 8192: Invalid"..., 41) = 41 <0.000012>
> 
> So the buffer address, 0xbffed120, is NOT correctly alligned.
> 
> 
> AND THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED; RPM fails because the person who tried to use
> O_DIRECT file access to an internal database file did not check for/guarantee
> correct buffer address alignment.  This bug did not show up to Red Hat because
> they never tested it (RPM) on a file system that actually supports O_DIRECT
> (because they don't have any).
> 

Can someone bug ;-) redhat about this one then?

Thanks,

Steve

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