David Lombard wrote:
> > What are we supposed to do, declare plain open() obsolete?
>
> LFS is fully usable with "plain open()" -- add O_LARGEFILE and use
> lseek64(), truncate64(), fstat64(), fcntl64(), et al.
>
> If that's unacceptable, you can also compile with _D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> and use your existing code
See for example the GNU fileutils... On Red Hat 6.2 those utilities
already work in 64 bits. Actually I think anything that uses GNU
Autoconf will automatically do that now.
-- Jamie
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