On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:41:24PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > > Let's switch to using off_t, which should hold any file size > > our system is capable of storing. We need to use ftello() to > > get the off_t. This is in POSIX and hopefully available > > everywhere; if not, we should be able to wrap it by falling > > back to ftell(), which would presumably return "-1" on such > > a large file (and we would simply skip resuming in that case). > > It would skip resuming, but would still maybe write to the end of the > existing file, right? So I think we would need to seek to the beginning > of the file in that case.
Oh, you're right. That's no worse than the current behavior, but it's definitely not ideal. I'd leave that for a follow-on patch that actually implements such an ftello wrapper. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
