stas 2002/06/05 04:37:16 Modified: src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR PerlIO.pod Log: document the fact that seek only works if both perl and apr have the matching largefile support Revision Changes Path 1.5 +14 -0 modperl-docs/src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR/PerlIO.pod Index: PerlIO.pod =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/modperl-docs/src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR/PerlIO.pod,v retrieving revision 1.4 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 --- PerlIO.pod 19 May 2002 09:40:53 -0000 1.4 +++ PerlIO.pod 5 Jun 2002 11:37:16 -0000 1.5 @@ -55,6 +55,20 @@ the rest of the arguments are the same as described by the I<open()> manpage. +=item seek() + + seek($fh, $offset, $whence); + +If C<$offset> is zero, C<seek()> works normally. + +However if C<$offset> is non-zero and Perl has been compiled with with +large files support (C<-Duselargefiles>), whereas APR wasn't, this +function will croak. This is because largefile size C<Off_t> simply +cannot fit into a non-largefile size C<apr_off_t>. + +To solve the problem, rebuild Perl with C<-Uuselargefiles>. Currently +there is no way to force APR to build with large files support. + =back The C interface provides functions to convert between Perl IO and
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