Re: [LUG] Redhat 8.0 and 64 bit lseek

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:44:44 +0000, John Daragon wrote:
> I must be getting old.
> it's a nice programming environment.  And I know RedHat 8.0 does big files 
> because I can write them, but I can't for the life of me come up with a 
> combination of C compiler options that doesn't result in the redefinition of 
> off64_t as off_t and have lseek return 32 bits. Which isn't enough.
> Anyone done this successfully ?

See my patch here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222124

Or see /usr/include/features.h


It's a very common problem. If you see a bug when it comes to some sort
of 2G limit, it's most likely this.

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