Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Expansion Stuff | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 28 Jan 1999 16:19:24 -0800 |
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kernel@draper.net writes:
> While we are on the subject... what thinks ye of a general solution > expanding the lseek syscall offset parameter to 64 bits. Thus files > in all filesystems could grow into terabyte range without suffering API > constraints, new syscalls, etc.
You should take a look at the LFS interface proposed by the OpenGroup first (which is implemented in glibc 2.1). This makes this unnecessary.
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