Bug#106826: Mandate 64-bit file support for file utilities

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Florian Weimer wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if each general file management tool
> (command line or text-based or graphical file manager)
> supports 64 bit files (with 64 bit inode values or size
> greater than 2 GB) even on 32 bit architectures?

Sure. Just recompile them with glibc2.2 and you're done (provided they
are coded correctly).

Wichert.

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