On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Bartley wrote:
>>>
>>> Backing up, what problem are you trying to solve?
>>
>> I want to use procfs.h while having large file support; there's a few
>> lines that disallow this:
>>
>> #if !defined(_LP64) && _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64
>> #error  "Cannot use procfs in the large file compilation environment"
>> #endif
>
>  If you want to use both procfs and large files, you can use the
>  transitional large file compilation environment, documented in
>  lfcompile64(5).  It is less convenient than using the normal large
>  files interfaces (you must explicitly use large-file interfaces, e.g.
>  open64() instead of open()), but is compatible with things like
>  procfs.h.

Thanks for the info. I'm still a bit curious as to what the underlying
reason for #error above is.

-- David
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