On 05/01/2015 12:11 AM, Jonny Grant wrote: > On 12 April 2015 at 09:03, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Jonny, >> >> On 30 June 2014 at 12:51, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello mtk >>> >>> Is it worth clarifying something on this page: >>> >>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/aio.7.html >>> >>> off_t aio_offset; /* File offset */ >>> >>> Could clarify that off_t on a 32bit system will be a signed 32bit >>> integer, meaning the maximum seek size is 2GB. >>> >>> I think this means that aio can only be used to access files up to >>> 2GB. >> >> I don't believe this is true. See <aio.h> and the defintion of this field there. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael > > Hi Michael > > ok, many thanks. > > BTW, the link at bottom of aio.7 is 403: > http://www.squid-cache.org/~adrian/Reprint-Pulavarty-OLS2003.pdf > > My own opinion is that links change regularly.. so often simpler to avoid them. Hi Jonny, I've fixed the link. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
