[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> But eventually someone is gonna want to try to build a >4gig file ( >
> 32bit seeks ) on the alpha/linux box.
As file offsets/lengths are specified as 64bits in
java.io.{File,RandomAccessFile}, that shouldn't be a problem. Downloading a
200Gig file to a DOS filesystem could be a problem, yes, but that's hardly up
to the porter to decide. It seems to me that throughout Java, 64bitiness was
reckoned with (logical - AXP was there, 64bit UltraSPARC around the corner).
Anyway, it seems you were misunderstood (including by me) - it seemed that you
were hacking the interface of the java.* files, instead of tweaking the
implementation of those to match the underlying platform, which is of course
just fine.
(and I don't give a shit about what Microsoft did or didn't do - Microsoft
won't be beaten in court, but in the marketplace).
Regards,
Cees
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