Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:00:00 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: O_LARGEFILE |
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Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>: > 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.
Ummm ... I don't see it as a bug, but a feature. This is the same action that occurs on most systems that natively support >2G files. The O_LARGEFILE is a no-op, since it works the same either way. (Cray UNICOS/SGI/and I believe the IBM SP series).
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