Re: Files > 2Gb on HP-UX 10.20

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Gaja K. Vaidyanatha wrote:

> All I wanted to communicate is that if you run a 32 bit OS, 2G is all
> you get just because you have only 2^32 bits for addressing.

Simply untrue. Sure, if you naively use int for your file offsets when seeking, then you're limited. There's no reason off_t has to be the machine's native integer size; off_t can easily be a 64-bit (or 128-bit) quantity on a 32-bit machine. Now you can't _mmap_ the file, but that's another matter.

This is like saying we can't use IPv6 until the advent of 128-bit cpus.

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