prior to commit 685e40bb09, x86_64 was
correctly passing O_LARGEFILE to SYS_open; it was removed (defined to
0 in the public header, and changed to use the public definition) as
part of that change, probably out of a mistaken belief that it's not
needed.
however, on a mixed system with 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, it's
important that all files be opened with O_LARGEFILE, even if the
opening process is 64-bit, in case a descriptor is passed to a 32-bit
process. otherwise, attempts to access past 2GB in the 32-bit process
could produce EOVERFLOW.
most 64-bit archs added later got this right alread, except for
mips64. x32 was also affected. there are now fixed.
while it's the same for all presently supported archs, it differs at
least on sparc, and conceptually it's no less arch-specific than the
other O_* macros. O_SEARCH and O_EXEC are still defined in terms of
O_PATH in the main fcntl.h.
