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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> on 2001/01/24 07:10:33 UTC
LARGEFILE support?
Question,
if we enable largefile support for unix, the apr_finfo_t->size, apr_off_t,
and so forth all become 64 bit identities?
Are we prepared to do so today? Consequences? Win32 absolutely handles
64 bit file sizes/offsets without complaint, I just want to get a handle on
how we proceed for all the platforms' benefit.
Bill
Re: LARGEFILE support?
Posted by David Reid <dr...@jetnet.co.uk>.
This seems like the correct way to go. Of course autoconf checks for
platforms that use it tos witch on the support can also be added.
david
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From: <rb...@covalent.net>
To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>
Cc: <de...@apr.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: LARGEFILE support?
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
> > Question,
> >
> > if we enable largefile support for unix, the apr_finfo_t->size,
apr_off_t,
> > and so forth all become 64 bit identities?
> >
> > Are we prepared to do so today? Consequences? Win32 absolutely
handles
> > 64 bit file sizes/offsets without complaint, I just want to get a handle
on
> > how we proceed for all the platforms' benefit.
>
> We can't enable it by default, because that has some serious consequences
> on some platforms. If we want to provide a configure option, then we can
> turn it on whenever we want to. If we want to enable it on some platforms
> by default, I don't see that as a problem.
>
> Ryan
>
>
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> Ryan Bloom rbb@apache.org
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Re: LARGEFILE support?
Posted by rb...@covalent.net.
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Question,
>
> if we enable largefile support for unix, the apr_finfo_t->size, apr_off_t,
> and so forth all become 64 bit identities?
>
> Are we prepared to do so today? Consequences? Win32 absolutely handles
> 64 bit file sizes/offsets without complaint, I just want to get a handle on
> how we proceed for all the platforms' benefit.
We can't enable it by default, because that has some serious consequences
on some platforms. If we want to provide a configure option, then we can
turn it on whenever we want to. If we want to enable it on some platforms
by default, I don't see that as a problem.
Ryan
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Ryan Bloom rbb@apache.org
406 29th St.
San Francisco, CA 94131
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