On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -0800, Brian Lim wrote:
> could someone tell me the way to handle large
> file (> 2GB) on linux ?
The open(2) manpage on my machine suggests that O_LARGEFILE is The Right
Thing To Use, but mentions that kernel 2.1.130, current when it was
written, doesn't yet support it, but glibc 2.1 does.
In short, perhaps some experimenting is in order. You probably have to
pass O_LARGEFILE to all the syscalls that need it. If you use the stdio
library, it might already use that flag for you. (strace, ltrace, and
experimentation is probably the best way to find out.. :)
Cheers!
(Those lucky *BSD users, their manpages actually match the software they
use...)
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