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SubjectRe: Expansion Stuff
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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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