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Re: On time64 and Large File Support
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: On time64 and Large File Support |
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Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:58:01 +0100 |
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On Mär 02 2023, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Another thing that's different is that when off_t grew in the 1990s,
> people said they needed a wider off_t RIGHT NOW, because programs wouldn't
> work on large inputs otherwise.
That is only true for rather few selected programs.
> The pressure to build with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 was large enough that
> a working consensus was reached pretty quickly to build that way.
The pressure for 64-bit time_t is much higher, because it affects almost
every program.
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- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, (continued)
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2023/03/02
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Wookey, 2023/03/02
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Paul Eggert, 2023/03/03
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Wookey, 2023/03/03
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2023/03/03
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/03/04
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Florian Weimer, 2023/03/03
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Richard W.M. Jones, 2023/03/03
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Andreas Schwab, 2023/03/02
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Paul Eggert, 2023/03/03
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Florian Weimer, 2023/03/06
Re: On time64 and Large File Support, Richard W.M. Jones, 2023/03/02