begin Thor Lancelot Simon quotation:
> That claim is false, unless perhaps you define a "32-bit Unix" as
> "a Unix where sizeof(off_t) is 4".
Oh, very well:
Amend that to say "all Unixes that needed to implement the LFS
extensions, which included all 32-bit Unixes I know of". The Large File
Summit had a rather wide range of participants, and I'd be surprised to
hear that many have completed the transition.
> The specific problem in scp is that the version of rcp that most of
> its source code was copied from was very old and used a 32-bit printf
> format to put the file size (which is sent as ASCII text) on the wire.
As I said, there's an alternative explanation. I'll lay pretty good
odds that the one I posted will turn out to be what applies in the
poster's particular case.
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