Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell Coker <> | Subject | O_LARGEFILE | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:42:30 +0200 |
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On Solaris when I open a device file for a >2G hard drive without O_LARGEFILE then I can only read the first 2G of data. On Linux 2.4.0-test5 (and all other versions I have tested) and Glibc 2.1.3 (and all other libc versions I have tested) I can open /dev/hda without O_LARGEFILE and read as much data as there is. Does this constitute a bug in Linux? Is it planned to be fixed?
I know this seems a bit picky, but it would be easier to develop software that is portable to other versions of Unix if this sort of thing just worked.
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