Hey Slugsters, I'm trying to get large file support into TAR and my ftpd for backup purposes. I hate it how tar and ftp and every bloody other linux process doesn't support 2 GB files on 32 bit systems. Being ignorant of this, at one stage greatly affected my job security :_)
I've been a nice reading the HOWTO on it I found at: http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/200-March/008708.html It said there is a simple define option -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE that will run macro's to make redefine all the existing Linux file IO functions to their 64 bit counterparts. I'm looking at my debian woody libc6 set up and all the macro's that don't seem to be there. Has anyone had any success with this or do I have to reconfigure a new c-library form source? What patches should I get to (like gcc3 and so on) if I need to do this. Thanks heaps guys and girls. Luke McKee Systems Administrator RTS Realtime Systems Pty Ltd Ph: +61 2 8259 3921 Fax: +61 2 9259 3999 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
