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Re: linux 2.3/4 and large files



At 12:30 +0100 1999-12-01, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>The code should be changed to use llseek on 32 Bit linux systems (if
>llseek is present), which uses two 32 Bit values to specify the offset
>and also reports back the size as a struct with 2 longs.

No it shouldn't, llseek is horribly evil, any new code should be using
lseek64 or lseek with __FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 defined.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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