[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#974868: Bug#974868: samba-vfs-modules: Still causing issues - at least on armv5tel/armel

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 18:29 +0000, ArtMG wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:19:24 +0300 Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru>
> wrote:
> > > Lacking any further information, I'll close this bugreport as
> fixed in 4.16.
> 
> I have just built and tested against 4.16.7 and I'm afraid to say
> that the reported issue DOES still occur. 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:03:02 +0300 Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru>
> wrote:
> > If you think this is incorrect and the issue is still here with
> current version
> 
> > of samba, please feel free to reopen this bug report with any extra
> information
> > which might be helpful to identify the issue.
> 
> What kind of extra information might be helpful? I can pull
> diagnostics off my test rig if it helps.
> 
> 
> Part of me wants to get this issue resolved so that 32-bit systems
> can meet these use-cases. However, I know from working on the patch
> for that other bug (
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13622#c10) that you
> increase the precision in one part of the code, and sooner or later
> an issue arises in another. 
> 
> In the end, there's a limit how long it's pragmatic to play bug
> whack-a-mole like this. Since my previous issue I have upgraded to
> hardware that supports 64-bit, so I'm now off to validate whether
> your suggestion of upgrading OS architecture can make this issue
> magically disappear.

If Samba is to have long-term 32 bit support someone needs to provide
an upstream patch to run a docker build in 32 bit, ie a 32 bit
userspace on 64 bit docker hosts. 

This should be entirely possible, but web searches show up very little,
and even 32 bit VMs seem hard to find (Douglas specially built one
years ago for a xsltproc doc build issue, but it was a hastle on most
cloud providers).

Bonus points if that 32 bit host is actually FreeBSD (to catch that as
well) somehow running under docker via qemu yet still behaving as a
subprocess, but that's off topic here. 

Andrew,


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