Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: large file support? (fwd) | | Date | 17 Aug 1997 05:34:16 GMT |
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Followup to: <199708170155.VAA05960@jenolan.rutgers.edu> By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > They could. But at the moment both ports have chosen to use a 32-bit > st_ino field in the stat structure. > > Really, I'm personally more for a true 64-bit seperate set of > interfaces for these sorts of things. Then we can have 64-bit file > support coherent across all platforms. >
Hmmm... I'd think I personally would prefer the 64-bit systems to use 64 bits throughout (then open == open64 on those platforms, etc.)
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