> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:10:33 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alistair Riddell <alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk>
>
> Pardon me for being ignorant, but wouldn't it be possible to use unsigned
> (i.e. 32-bit) variables instead of 31-bit? That would at least allow 4GB
> files. Or is the extra bit/sign used for something?
>
> The lseek() interface uses the sign bit for being able to do negative
> offsets from the current position of the file.
But the kernel internally uses absolute offsets [doesn't it?] - and for the
user interface there is llseek().
-Andi
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