Re: large file support? (fwd)

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:41:11 -0700 (PDT)

Ok, so it is obvious why lseek64 and mmap64 are needed, they
can specify absolute offsets.

But what for open64/read64/write64? None of them give the
user a hint as to what the file pointer offset is. And we are
still on a 32-bit system, with a 32-bit VM space, so writing
8GB in one go is not possible.

So what do these other functions do?

r~