Re: [patch] Properly detecting large file support

[Neal H Walfield]

> I am not entirely clear on this issue either.  The Hurd does not have real
> largefile support, but we provide the interfaces and fall back to the old 32
> bit interfaces.  So parted doesn't need to be recompiled when we have LFS.
> I think Neal found some other reason why it is especially important for
> parted on the Hurd to be compiled with this option (I forgot).

I think that getconf asks the question: ``Do you have LFS support?'' and
the answer to that on the Hurd is, no, we do not have LFS support, at
least not completely.  Therefore, we do not make an attempt to lie.

AC_SYS_LARGEFILE asks the question: ``Do you have LFS interfaces?'' and
the answer to that on the Hurd is, yes, we do.

With respect to parted, we are only using the large file support that is
actually implemented.

Is this clearer?

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