Re: stat64 et al.
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:01:42PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > I'm just working on my stat utility to be able to cope with files > 2GB and
> > filesystems > ?TB. While it is no big deal to use stat64() instead of stat()
> > but I wonder if there are old system out there that do not have stat64()
> > resp. statfs64() in their libc. I would prefer to not use lots of #ifdefs.
> > On the other hand I have no idea when these functions were introduced.
> >
> > I noticed that on sparc the struct statbuf64 is not the same as on i386.
> > Some member variables are larger on sparc. Is there any protable way to
> > output these variables?
>
> The correct way is to simply add -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE to your CFLAGS.
> Then stat(), open(), et al will all automagically become their 64bit LFS
> counterparts. No code changes are required at all.
What does this mean for stuff like bug #83469 (http://bugs.debian.org/83469)?
Can they be compiled with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE without any negative effects?
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