Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 14:50:07 12/13/03
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On December 13, 2003 at 17:00:27, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On December 13, 2003 at 16:50:39, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>Maximum file size depends on the filesystem. I run XFS (SGI's filesystem) on >>Linux, and my max file size is 2^64 bytes :) The problem is that the standard C >>library uses signed 32 bit integers to index the file offset, so the practical >>limit for 32 bit processors is 2GB. > >You are probably commenting about fseek() where the offset in Standard C is a >long. Will fseek (and other Standard C functions) work on files > 2 or 4 GB on >your system (I assume you have 32 bit long). Say, when you want to go ahead in >the file for 6 GB and you call fseek(fp, 1500000000, SEEK_CUR); three times in a >row? > >I know, there are other methods, but I try to stay with Standard C. > >Regards, >Dieter There are some defines on Linux to use 64 bit file offsets, I think. I know there are 64 bit versions of fseek, ftell, etc on Linux. anthony
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