Re: llseek and file size limit !!!!

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Hi,

Le Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:37:37 +0530,
"pradeep singh" <2500.pradeep@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> llseek method has its second argument as offset which is of type
> unsigned long. And the last argument decides whence i.e from where to
> start the offset, right? Now i have a doubt.

At http://lxr.linux.no/source/fs/read_write.c#L113, you can see that
the offset is not an unsigned long, but an loff_t, which is defined to
be an unsigned long long at
http://lxr.linux.no/source/include/asm-i386/posix_types.h#L38.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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