[PATCH 0.9.33 0/7] Backport pread/pwrite fixes from master

[Johannes Stezenbach]

Hi Natanael,

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:18:57AM +0000, Natanael Copa wrote:
> I previously sent a bug report for pread/pwrite with a link to a
> patch that i hacked up quick and dirty. This showed up to be severly
> broken on x86_64 and corrupted several qemu disks images for me.
> 
> I see that this bad patch made it into 0.9.33 stabel tree. I think it
> should be reverted and instead use cherry-picks from master. This is
> what we currently use with success in Alpine Linux.
> 
> Tested on x86_64 and x86.

I just built a toolchain for ARM from 0.9.33 stable branch
and I'm trying to figure out if the breakage is x86_64 only.
could you give more details what breaks and why?


Thanks,
Johannes