RE: llseek and 64 bit return...

From: Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 21:26:17 EST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Xymoron [mailto:oxymoron@waste.org]
> > Is there some good reason why the interface shouldn't be cleaned up
> > on Intel?
>
> Binary compatibility. At the source level, glibc should hide it all for
> you with a compile flag.

--- Darn Send click...um...yes. Maybe old syscall would be changed 'oldlseek' and add a new 64-bit lseek for newly compiled programs?

-- just a thought for moving to a cleaner interface...but this isn't important enough to me to push it anymore... -l

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