[ubuntu/karmic] sreadahead 1.0-5 (Accepted)

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Sat Oct 10 18:10:44 BST 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 11:30 +0000, Ubuntu Installer wrote:

> sreadahead (1.0-5) karmic; urgency=low
> 
>   * Use off_t instead of int for the index used relative to statbuf.st_size
>     (which is off_t), to prevent an overflow on files >2GB (LP: #414597)
> 
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:19:26 +0100
> Changed-By: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>
> Maintainer: Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/sreadahead/1.0-5
> 
Doesn't this result in the pack file format changing?  Did you take care
to migrate that, or at least forcibly remove it[0] so that the size
change doesn't result in reading random data after this upgrade.

Scott

[0] not sure whether sreadahead triggers itself or not
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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