Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: When? 64-Bit lseek()? | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:30:06 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Carsten Paeth" <> |
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> > Hi, > A couple of years ago, I asked the question about having large files > (that is 64-bits of addressability). Now that the POSIX definitions are > getting close to being real, (and I haven't ever seen them), what is the > replacement for lseek(2)? I see that the iNTEL version of linux doesn't > go past 32 bits at present, but many current disks are close. > > Just pining for some "real" address space ;-).
the kernel uses loff_t as file offset, which is a long long. try llseek(2).
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