[Zope-dev] >2GB Data.fs files on FreeBSD

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

R. David Murray writes:
>So it looks to my uneducated eye like file.tell() is broken.  The actual
>on-disk size of the file, by the way, is indeed 2147718485, so it looks
>like somebody's not using the right size data structure somewhere.

Look at Objects/fileobject.c, at the implementation for tell().  
(The Python source code is nicely organized; don't be afraid to dive
into it.)

#if defined(HAVE_FTELLO) && defined(HAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT)
	offset = ftello(f->f_fp);
#elif defined(HAVE_FTELL64) && defined(HAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT)
	offset = ftell64(f->f_fp);
#else
	offset = ftell(f->f_fp);
#endif

So, presumably neither HAVE_FTELLO nor HAVE_FTELL64 are defined, so it
uses the old ftell().  What's the right system call for FreeBSD?
Looking at the man pages for 4.0 at freebsd.org, it's ftello().  So, 
is HAVE_FTELLO defined?  If it isn't, then find out why; if it is,
then there's some other bug in Python's tell() code.

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