Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 51169: / /trunk/epan/: app_mem_usage.c

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Jakub Zawadzki
> <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:59:42AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 6, 2013, at 9:38 AM, darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=51169
>>> >
>>> > User: darkjames
>>> > Date: 2013/08/06 09:38 AM
>>> >
>>> > Log:
>>> > app_mem_usage fixes:
>>> >
>>> > - Add missing feature test macro for pread()
>>>
>>> Do all versions of the Linux kernel and of glibc have pread()?
>>
>> Probably, from man:
>>
>> The  pread()  and  pwrite() system calls were added to Linux in version 2.1.60
>> (...) C library support (including emulation using lseek(2) on older
>> kernels without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1
>>
>> glibc 2.1 was released about 1999
>
> Hmm, we have conflicting man pages.
> http://linux.die.net/man/2/pread

Or not quite. The question is why the feature test macro is for glibc
2.12 and 2008, when the function existed long before that...

>>> If not, would an lseek() followed by a read() do just as well?
>>
>> Sure.
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