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 01:17:10 -0700 (PDT) |
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> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 07:32:15AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > It's 2 GB due to signed 32-bit arithmetric. > > But why _must_ it be signed? >
Mostly because of the lseek() interface, AFAIK.
-hpa
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