Bug#52455: O_LARGEFILE canīt be used
In article <cistron.m11wUa1-0002dlC@mrvnbook.intern.brederlow.de>,
Goswin Brederlow <mrvn@student.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>Package: libc6-dev
>Version: 2.1.2-10
>Severity: normal
>
>I used all the include files mentioned in "man open", but still O_LARGEFILE
>wasn't defined and couldn't be used in open.
That's not weird - Linux doesn't support large files yet. It will
be a feature of the 2.4 kernel and it will need a lot of glibc support
which still has to be written as well.
>PS: This is to make bonnie behave right with files > 2GB.
You'll have to wait for the 2.4 kernel and glibc 2.4.0 or so. Perhaps
medio 2000.
Or simply switch to a 64 bit architecture like the Alpha which
doesn't have the silly 32 bits restrictions.
Mike.
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