> May I ask where does one get a patched fileutils package ? I have just
> downloaded fileutils-4.1 from prep.ai.mit.edu and it has 0 information in
> README, configure --help, etc on how to enable this and when compiled ls
> still complains.
>
> thanks !
>
> Vladimir Dergachev
The actual instructions are in the glibc documentation, in the section about
file position. If I'm reading this correctly, you have to define
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS to be 64, then the large file functions should overlay the
regular ones transparently, but YMMV.
-- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
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