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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:45:32 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: New POSIX: pwrite, revision 2 [PATCH]
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Hello.

ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se wrote:
> 
> According to Richard Dawe:
> > Index: include/unistd.h
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/djgpp/djgpp/include/unistd.h,v
> > retrieving revision 1.16
> > diff -p -c -3 -r1.16 unistd.h
> ...
> > + ssize_t             pwrite(int _fildes, const void *_buf, size_t _nbyte, off_t _offset);
> 
> Well, that off_t is broken on files > 2GiB.

Well, that's how it's specified. The way to fix that is to support the Large
File Summit, which allows off_t to be 64-bits, when the user defines something
before including headers (IIRC _USE_LARGEFILE).

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]