[Zope] FYI: large files & linux.

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

+----[ J C Lawrence ]---------------------------------------------
| On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 16:27:18 +1000 (EST) 
| Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au> wrote:
| 
| > FreeBSD on intel architecture doesn't have the large file limit of
| > Linux.
| 
| Not exactly true.  The *BSD's, like most of the rest of the world,
| implement the basic POSIX file APIs which use a signed 32bit long

Not completely correct.

man lseek... it doesn't work on file streams (fopen ), it works on 
file descriptors like poll and select,  and, it works on very very large files.

lseek is a POSIX interface, and has been a part of linux since at least 1995.
Indeed the BSD and Linux manpages are basically identical including this as 
a bug:

BUGS
     This document's use of whence is incorrect English, but is maintained for
     historical reasons.

:-)

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