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Re: e2fsprogs 1.10-4 doesn't work on partitions > 2GB



On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

>    On a side issue, the man page for llseek is way out of date, I just
>    checked it, and it said it couldn't deal with thing > 2GB.
> 
> ???  It sounds like the man page for llseek is completely broken, and
> has been since the beginning.  (n.b., RedHat's llseek man page is sane)
> The whole point of llseek() is that it supports a 64-bit offset, so it
> never was the case that it couldn't deal with offsets greater than 2GB.
> The whole point of its existance was to deal with offsets > 2GB.
> 
> Are you sure you weren't looking at a man page for lseek(), perhaps?
> 

Whoops my fault, no "files" greater than 2 gig.  I was too tired last
night, I couldn't read straight. :-)

Shaya


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