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Posted to docs-cvs@perl.apache.org by st...@apache.org on 2002/06/05 13:37:16 UTC
cvs commit: modperl-docs/src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR PerlIO.pod
stas 2002/06/05 04:37:16
Modified: src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR PerlIO.pod
Log:
document the fact that seek only works if both perl and apr have the
matching largefile support
Revision Changes Path
1.5 +14 -0 modperl-docs/src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR/PerlIO.pod
Index: PerlIO.pod
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RCS file: /home/cvs/modperl-docs/src/docs/2.0/api/mod_perl-2.0/APR/PerlIO.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.4
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diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- PerlIO.pod 19 May 2002 09:40:53 -0000 1.4
+++ PerlIO.pod 5 Jun 2002 11:37:16 -0000 1.5
@@ -55,6 +55,20 @@
the rest of the arguments are the same as described by the I<open()>
manpage.
+=item seek()
+
+ seek($fh, $offset, $whence);
+
+If C<$offset> is zero, C<seek()> works normally.
+
+However if C<$offset> is non-zero and Perl has been compiled with with
+large files support (C<-Duselargefiles>), whereas APR wasn't, this
+function will croak. This is because largefile size C<Off_t> simply
+cannot fit into a non-largefile size C<apr_off_t>.
+
+To solve the problem, rebuild Perl with C<-Uuselargefiles>. Currently
+there is no way to force APR to build with large files support.
+
=back
The C interface provides functions to convert between Perl IO and
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