Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
13 Jun 1998 17:53:59 GMT

According to Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>:
>> Then we'll be screwed once again. Perhaps you can argue that you or
>> future glibc maintainers won't do this because you it would screw
>> applications; but if that was the case, why didn't you keep the
>> llseek prototype?
>
>Because it's no standard function.

I just checked a couple of other systems, and Solaris and AIX have both
lseek64 and llseek, while (as far as I could tell from looking in
/usr/include) Digital Unix has neither.

So is glibc going to take out every single function that is not defined
by some standard, or is it going to try to keep compatibility with other
Unix systems and older Linux libc? Or are we going to have another
divergent C library for Linux?

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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