files > 2GB

[Jakub Jelinek]

> All is not that simple. How NOT RECOMPILED programs should deal with such
> files ? cp, file, etc ? "Recompile all programs with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> is not good answer IMO: why we need new syscalls and so on if we can just
> enlarge stuctures in existing ones and let everyone recompile the whole system ?

By means of SIGXFSZ and EFBIG.
This is all implemented in Ben LaHaise's LFS patch, which partly made it
into 2.3 and parts are still to be applied.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Linux version 2.3.41 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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