Bug#489917: jed: Opening a file fails with 'File XXX not readable.' on a large filesystem

[Alter Ego]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:16:51PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi Alter,
> 
> Alter Ego schrieb am Thu 05. Feb, 11:58 (+0200):
> > What I don't think the bug report mentioned is that this is on a system
> > with a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit libraries. I haven't noticed the problem
> > on a couple of other systems with both 64-bit kernels and libraries, so
> > it might just be a case of an unsupported combination and PEBCAK ;)
> 
> Saw you other applications fail? I don't know if 64‐bit kernel and
> 32‐userland is a supported combination, but I think it is. Can you still
> produce this error of jed on such a system?
  Yes, jed is still failing with the same error on the mixed
64-bit/32-bit systems.
  cat, grep, vi, nano, less, more and the like don't fail, but I don't
think they do any fancy stat:ing.

Cheers.