David Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IIUC, GNU coreutils uses uintmax_t to store large numbers relating to
> the file system and prints them with something like this:
>
> char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
> printf (_("The file is %s octets long.\n"), umaxtostr (size, buf));
That's probably the most portable way to do it.
I guess that solves the remaining technical difficulty. The things
that need to be done for large file support then are:
* Use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in configure.in. Make sure the compilation
flags contain the proper large file support incantations.
* Change most (all?) occurrences of `long' in the code to `off_t'. Or
should we go the next logical step and just use uintmax_t right
away?
* Profit!
Some of this has already been done in the submitted patch.
