Re: super quick >2GB question

Mark Lehrer (mark@knm.org)
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:01:16 -0600


On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Mark Lehrer wrote:
>> Could you just recompile these utilities with the 2.4 headers and
>> expect them to start working correctly?

> As I understand, no. There's an option to open() to allow large
> file support as the application needs to be aware of the possible
> 32bit int overflow.

Is this different from other unixes; e.g. solaris x86 or UnixWare?

Mark

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