Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+) | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:32:12 -0700 (PDT) |
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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?) >
No; there is a "64 on 32" standard API recently developed, which uses an "lseek64" type. Either way, I believe the issue has been (wisely) postponed to 2.3.
-hpa
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