Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:42:01 +0100 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: files > 2GB |
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> All is not that simple. How NOT RECOMPILED programs should deal with such > files ? cp, file, etc ? "Recompile all programs with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" > is not good answer IMO: why we need new syscalls and so on if we can just > enlarge stuctures in existing ones and let everyone recompile the whole system ?
By means of SIGXFSZ and EFBIG. This is all implemented in Ben LaHaise's LFS patch, which partly made it into 2.3 and parts are still to be applied.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.41 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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