Re: 2.4 and 2G File Limit?

From: Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 03:30:27 EST

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>>>>> Stephen C Tweedie writes:

Stephen> Hi,
Stephen> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:27:47PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>>
>> >> Stephen Tweedie posted a comment back in January that 2.4 would
>> >> lift the 2G file limit for 32-bit architeture. Is this still true?
>> >
>> > 2.3.x supports LFS. The only 32bitism left I know about is file locks
>>
>> Gee, it seems nearly dishonest to not mention the horrors of userspace.
>>
>> LFS is a joke. Without an LP64 compilation environment, there is
>> just no hope of getting a complete system with large file support.
>> What are we supposed to do, declare plain open() obsolete?

Stephen> The current glibcs support both the open64() 64-bit file access
Stephen> variant syscalls to allow you to mix 32- and 64-bit accesses, and
Stephen> the -D__USE_LARGEFILE64 flag to force all file access syscalls to
Stephen> the 64-bit variants, with off_t == loff_t.

The flag is called -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.

Andreas

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