Re: Large-File-Summit kernel aspects completed, any testers ?

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
22 Dec 1998 17:02:49 -0800


Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi> writes:

> (And thus no libc support exists yet, I must talk with Drepper
> et.al.)

glibc 2.1 has full LFS support. Simply make O_LARGEFILE working, add
a syscall for mmap64 and we should be set.

pread/pwrite/_llseek already take 64bit file offsets.

OK, the various locking techniques might need some changes but lockf64
etc are also already present.

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