On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> At present, no. Since the kernel still uses signed 32-bit offsets for
> the lseek system call, even in kernel 2.4, the 2 gig file size limit
> remains. Any change to this that would allow 64-bit or even bigger
> offsets would be a far-reaching change that would eventually touch
> every system library and executable.
Nope, that's exactly what LP64/Large File Summit is for. It defines a
bunch of new functions to do 64-bit files on 32-bit OS's.
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