Kuberan Naganathan <kubi...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I did some testing on this. Solaris seems to treat files as a large
circular buffer of size 2^64 with respect to seeks in the /proc file system
address space file. No error results with seeks of greater than 2^63 with
any of SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END. This is not true of a regular file
where I get errno=22 when seeking to an offset greater than or equal to
2^63.
So even on solaris the behavior seems to be filesystem dependent.
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<p>I did some testing on this. Solaris seems to treat files as a large
circular buffer of size 2^64 with respect to seeks in the /proc file system
address space file. No error results with seeks of greater than 2^63 with any
of SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END. This is not true of a regular file where I
get errno=22 when seeking to an offset greater than or equal to 2^63. </p>
<p>So even on solaris the behavior seems to be filesystem dependent. </p>
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