Re: proposed 2.2.11

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:42:45 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:35:54 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@suse.de> said:

> Alan could you explain this change?
> - if (((pos + count) >> 32) &&
> + if (((pos + count) >> 33) &&

> IMHO we should consider the file as "LARGE_FILE" if we are going to
> write beyond the 2giga limit, and so if `(pos+count)>>31' is not null
> (but the sign of the sum is positive of course).

Correct, it's plainly a thinko. s/33/31/.

--Stephen

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