[Bug libc/13047] On 32 bit system (UBUNTU Natty) Cannot open a file of size 5GB

["lsatenstein at yahoo dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13047

Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo dot com> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #3 from Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo dot com> 2011-07-31 23:24:23 UTC ---
Here is my come-back. Since one can add a #define to allow using buffered IO
(fread, fwrite, etc) for files in excess of 2 gigabytes. then this define
should be permanent within stdio.h .  I wanted to read an ISO DVD and could
not.   I would refer the owner of this maintenance problem to the actual
libc.pdf file section 4.17, which makes no mention of the #define.  (However in
respoonse to Andreas Jaeger, personal reply (which I appreciate receiving and
for which I thank him), using the search of the libc.PDF I did find a chapter
about large file support.  

Something is wrong when today a large file is one measured in petabytes. Please
redirect this topic and this bug to the documentation project and of course to
a steering committee to update the stream IO functionality to handle very large
files, or to state that in the libc.pdf fopen() document, to refer to the large
file section.

I lost quite a few hours of digging to independently discoover the #define that
enables large file support.  I would also ask why large file support is turned
on for 64 bit linux?  Had 64 bit linux the same constraint, I would have not
been concerned.  (I was porting code from 64bit to 32bit), for older systems.

Thank you again Andreas, for the prompt reply.

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