On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:35 PM Martin Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Could you please elaborate on what was lacking in the INT_MAX part? > As seen in write's man page: > > > > On Linux, write() (and similar system calls) will transfer at most > > 0x7ffff000 (2,147,479,552) bytes, returning the number of bytes actually > > transferred. (This is true on > > both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.) > > Wouldn't it create an issue with 64 bit systems when trying to > read/write large files?
This seemed like a change not prompted by an actually observed buggy behavior. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
