Seema Alevoor wrote: > >> Were these large file settings added to >> * enable large file support in APR (needed with an Apache 2.0 build; not >> needed with Apache 2.2 build) >> or >> * fix an application or other issue in the way that APR enables large >> file support >> > > Unfortunately, I don't know why this patch was added. It existed in our > Apache 2.0.x source tree and 2.2.x, before our involvement.
since it was in the 2.0.x, it is highly likely that it was there just to enable large file support in APR (APR 0.9 didn't do that automatically, in order to preserve ABI)
