On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:38:16PM -0700, Sorav Bansal wrote: > look(1) mmaps() the entire file to memory and is not useful for large > files (>2GB). In its current form, it operates only on the first 2GB of > the file. For larger files, mmap() will fail. Please correct me, if I am > wrong.
I think you're right. That implementation probably also comes unstuck on systems where the type of the difference between pointers (no C standard to hand, sorry) is narrower than off_t. > IMHO, it will be useful to have an equivalent of look/bsearch in coreutils. I agree. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
