Messages in this thread |  | | From | LD Landis <> | Subject | Re: When? 64-Bit lseek()? | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:31:16 -0500 (CDT) |
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Hi, Thanks for your note Harald! So how "standard" is this? Anyone know? The man page doesn't betray much (re: POSIX) and also suggests that the call is limited to 4GB file sizes. I am curious about:
(1) What is the current standard/proposal for 64-bits in POSIX-land? (the prototype is sufficient for my purposes, don't need all the spec)
(2) What is the current status of 64-bits in POSIX-land?
(3) Anyone know what the expected adoption timeframe by POSIX is?
Harald Koenig wrote: > > > 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. > > i386 Linux has a llseek() system call which is used e.g. by fdisk-2.0 > to partition disks >2GB (I've already tested a 4.5G disk, no problem; > and there are quite a number of nice 9+ GB SCSI disks around; unfortunately > neither belongs to me :-( > > > Harald > -- > All SCSI disks will from now on ___ _____ > be required to send an email notice 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ > 24 hours prior to complete hardware failure! <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ > \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ > \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// > Harald Koenig, \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ > Inst.f.Theoret.Astrophysik // / \\ \ > koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^ >
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