On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:23:56AM -0400, Dave Lovelace wrote:
> 
> I was hoping someone more specifically knowledgeable would answer, but
> haven't seen anything, so here goes:
> 
> 2147483647 is 2^31-1, so I'd have to suspect that this is the result of
> using a signed 4-byte int type for the size.  Since (on the Linux system
> I just checked) sizeof(int) and sizeof(long) are both 4 bytes, this is
> probably a result of not going to special trouble to allow anything bigger.

Just a guess, but it might be LFS related.  If so the fix is pretty
easy.

  - Craig
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