"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> Does anyone know how widely ported software deals with large files? > > Well, using off_t and AC_SYS_LARGEFILE seems to be the recommended > practice.
Recommended for POSIX systems, perhaps, but not really portable to older machines. And it doesn't solve the portable printing problem either, so in effect it's about as portable as unconditionally using `long long', which is mandated by C99. I'll take a look at tar alphas, thanks for the tip. I looked at the latest stable version, and let's just say I wasn't encouraged by what they did. It was almost as crufty as Wget's VERY_LONG_TYPE, only a bit more robust.
