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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 20:32:14 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: Re: lfilelength doc change
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At 03:08 PM 2/2/01 -0500, Mark E. wrote:
 >Hi guys,
 >After reading through the single Unix online docs and the LFS docs,
 >negative offsets
 >aren't considered valid. Therefore, I'd like to change 2^64 back to
 >2^63 and be done with it.

OK by me, but then make it 2^63-1 instead of 2^64-2.  2^63-1 is the 
largest *positive* integer that will fit into a "long long", if I'm not 
forgetting my binary arithmetic.  The "-2" in "2^64-2" was to exclude 
the equivalent of a signed return value of "-1" (which is, of course, 
unsigned 2^64-1).

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