Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:27:59 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+) |
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On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 01:17:10AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Mostly because of the lseek() interface, AFAIK.
I was about to say lseek uses off_t - which is unsigned, but its not. And negative offsets are allowed and required for lseek.
Opps.
I think I'll be quiet now... (but that doesn't entirely rule this out for use with llseek and files in thr 2-3 gb range, does it?)
-cw
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