At 12:04 AM 9/3/2003, Stas Bekman wrote: >Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >>--On Tuesday, September 2, 2003 2:30 PM -0700 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >>>Other outstanding issues that IMHO can/should be fixed in 1.0. >>> >>>Configure issues: >>> >>>1) dealing with APR_HAS_LARGE_FILES on linux >>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apr-dev&m=105277560530754&w=2 >>>Currently it's just disabled, even when available. >>>the whole thread is here: >>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105271796700002&r=1&w=2 >> >>IMHO, this isn't a 1.0 showstopper. Someone who has a Linux box can step up >>and add the right configure logic. No API change is required here. We don't >>need to hold up 1.0 because no Linux developers care to fix it. (I don't >>have access to Linux boxes with working sendfile64, so I'm of zero help here.)
Might I humbly suggest that we *ignore* the issues with sendfile64 and simply use largefiles, period? If they want apr_sendfile to behave, someone will step up and fix it. AFAICT, there are few 32-bit file size restrictions in the modern world. Bill
