Re: monit 3.2 proc and fd problems (solaris)

[Martin Pala]

Christian Hopp wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Martin Pala wrote:
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> > Christian Hopp wrote:
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> > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Martin Pala wrote:
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> > > > First problem related description (from solaris 64-bit developer's guide):
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> > > > ---
> > > > What Does EOVERFLOW Mean?
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > 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.
> > > > ---
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> > > ==> monit has to be compiled with a compiler which produces 64bit binary?
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> > > does gcc-3.1+ do it???
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> > > CHopp
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> CHopp
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Thanks, it will be cool :)

Martin