#include <hallo.h>
* Michael Kerrisk [Fri, Nov 24 2006, 04:57:08PM]:
> tabs 399130 fixed-upstream
> thanks
>
> Hello Eduard,
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> > See topic. I wonder why people document O_LARGEFILE while it does not
> > work by default.
>
> Please be more precise: "does now work" is vague...
Does not work line "does not compile". Unknown, not exported with the
API.
> > And google tells you to use _GNU_SOURCE which is
> > obviously non-portable.
>
> Yes, O_LARGEFILE is non-portable...
>
> > -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE seems to be the solution I
> > needed but this stuff should be documented in the manpage.
>
> I've changed things upstream for release 2.42. The description now reads:
>
> O_LARGEFILE
> (LFS) Allow files whose sizes cannot be repre-
> sented in an off_t (but can be represented in an
> off64_t) to be opened. The _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> macro must be defined in order to obtain this
> definition. Setting the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS feature
> test macro to 64 is the preferred method of
> obtaining this functionality (see fea-
> ture_test_macros(7)).
Sorry for the late response (see another mail), mails were mixed up.
Eduard.
--
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revolutionären Übergang hervor, wo das vorstrebende Neue nicht länger
zurückzudrängen, nicht zu bändigen ist, so daß es sich vom Alten
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