Re: lfs in apache
Omry Yadan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today large files can easily take more than a few gigabytes (dvd images,
> vide data etc).
>
> apache2 does not support large files by default, there is a compile
> option for it,
>
> CFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
I don't recall the exact details, but this requires a bit of care to get
right. Specifically, the problem is what happens when other things
aren't compiled with these flags. I once spent two or three days
chasing after an extremely subtle bug in Rivet that was caused by a
struct being overwritten in a nasy way because Tcl had those flags and
Apache didn't (or vice versa?).
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David N. Welton
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