Re: large file support? (fwd)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
17 Aug 1997 05:34:16 GMT

Followup to: <199708170155.VAA05960@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> They could. But at the moment both ports have chosen to use a 32-bit
> st_ino field in the stat structure.
>
> Really, I'm personally more for a true 64-bit seperate set of
> interfaces for these sorts of things. Then we can have 64-bit file
> support coherent across all platforms.
>

Hmmm... I'd think I personally would prefer the 64-bit systems to use
64 bits throughout (then open == open64 on those platforms, etc.)

-hpa

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