Re: Logfiles above 2G

Enver ALTIN <ealtin 'at' parkyeri.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 01:42 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:
> > But if I open the file with fopen64, then it works. Rather strange as  
> > Linux seems to be the only OS where this has been done like that.
> 
> There's several reasons why maintainers of GNU C Library have chosen
> this approach. Obviously, using 64 bits I/O functions on a 32 bits
> system is slightly slower and also will consume more memory.
> 
> Noting that the C library is designed to be used by everybody, including
> applications that deal with thousands of files in different estimated
> sizes (remember squid?), using 64bits I/O is optional, and can be
> enabled easily at compile time.

Opposedly, applications that deal with thousands of files could
easily enable a proper option at compile time for sticking to non
large files.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau
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