Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions
Derrick J Brashear (shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> When llseek was first added to libc, the open64/lseek64 interfaces
> weren't standardized yet. llseek was what was the defacto standard, and
> it's what programs like e2fsprogs used if they wanted a 64-bit lseek.
> So it's hardly a matter of "wrong", but it that was simply a legacy,
> de-facto interface of the time. (By the way, Solaris 2.5 still doesn't
> have the open64/lseek64 interface, but it does have llseek.)
Solaris 2.6 added the mumble64 interface, but *kept* llseek, BTW. No notice in
the man page advising of future removal, either.
-D
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