Re: On time64 and Large File Support
Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
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On Mär 02 2023, Paul Eggert wrote: > Another thing that's different is that when off_t grew in the 1990s, > people said they needed a wider off_t RIGHT NOW, because programs wouldn't > work on large inputs otherwise. That is only true for rather few selected programs. > The pressure to build with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 was large enough that > a working consensus was reached pretty quickly to build that way. The pressure for 64-bit time_t is much higher, because it affects almost every program. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."