On 20 Apr, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ..
>> 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.
>
Defines new functions? So does that mean that you have to not
only recompile but also hack every program on your system so that it
becomes LP64-aware? Or does it simply redefine off_t to a 64-bit type
(meaning the change becomes nearly transparent to old code, but still
requires a recompilation)?
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