From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200206150936.g5F9aoK27611@speedy.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: DJGPP and the Large File Summit (LFS)
In-Reply-To: <3D0AF51C.1814481D@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> "from Richard Dawe at
 Jun 15, 2002 09:04:44 am"
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 11:36:50 +0200 (CEST)
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According to Richard Dawe:
> Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > 
> > According to Richard Dawe:
> > > I've just started working on getting Large File Summit (LFS) support in
> > > DJGPP. Basically this is a way of supporting files which exceed the number
> > > of bytes representable by a positive signed 32b integer, i.e.: 2GB - 1B.
> > > LFS has been integrated into the new POSIX standard.
> > 
> > I don't mean to put you off, but why? The file syatem calls only
> > support file sizes up to 2^32-2.
> 
> 2^32-2 can't be represented only in the positive part of a signed 32b integer.

Yes. So...?


Right,

						MartinS