Re: On time64 and Large File Support

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On Mär 02 2023, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Fifteen years from now we'll be saying the same thing about
> _TIME_BITS. There will be some pain in the meantime, just as there was
> with the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS transition, something I lived through and was
> not too happy about either.

There is a huge difference between them: time_t has a flag day, off_t
doesn't.  You can still run with 32-bit off_t today and have everything
working.

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