Re: lseek SEEK_END fails on a Toshiba 6007MB disk.

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 19:23:12 EST

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On Feb 20, 2002 15:40 -0800, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> offset = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
>
> lseek: Value too large for defined data type

You need to use a 64-bit lseek (e.g. llseek or lseek64). This can
be done with '#define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE' and/or '#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE'
and/or '#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'.

Cheers, Andreas

-- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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