Re: lseek error / LFS support with potato
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:44:01PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote:
>
> Yes, I found after sending the letter. But since this only works when
> you compile the program yourself, and the database acording to the
> support should not suffer from this limit, I thought maybe there was
> some magic flip I had to switch. Some key that made lseek syscalls use
> the 64-bit version if available or something like that. Perhaps some
> missing links from src/include(lib) to kernel-src/include(lib) or some
> other issue I'd missed.
But that couldn't possibly work.
The program is compiled. It has compiled into it code which knows
that off_t is 4 bytes long. E.g. it only allocates 4 byts on the
stack for off_t, that sort of thing. It couldn't possibly work with
an 8 byte off_t.
Change the size of a data type, in a language like C, will always
force a recompile...
Jules
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