| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:50:19 +0200 |
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:51:20PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote: > It exists if you're on a 32-bit machine: Not it doesn't, it exists in an operating system that's still using 32-bit integers for measuring files. Nobody does that any more. But some utilities still have a safety check for it. > I forget which kernel revision, but the kernel now supports large files. > So does glibc. Some userspace applications do and some do not. By being sane and using an int64_t (aka a long long on a 32-bit architecture). Which everything should be doing by now. > On a 64-bit system, you'll be limited to files of eight exabytes in > size, without using any special workarounds. Which ought to be enough > for anybody... The workaround is the same, use a double-width (128-bit) variable. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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