Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-51,: Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

# Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:10:26 +1300

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> > Could this system could potentially be used to mmap >2GB files on
> > 32-bit platforms?
>
> You can. It's all there,

Perhaps I'm missing something -- but is this not a screwy API then
for what is essentially a 64-bit mmap? Can we not pass a u_int64_t or
something?

I know this sucks from many angles -- especially I register starved
x86, but its not like your going to do this 100 times a second?

-cw

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