Re: last days of htdig

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I guess I was assuming that the newer glibc would deal better with
> larger file sizes, which may have been an incorrect assumption.  Perhaps
> the old glibc worked fine, too.  Regardless, I certainly know that it is
> possible to manipulate files over 2GB on linux without rebuilding glibc.

I think the LFS support predates 1999.  The problem probably is that the
application isn't compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and it also
doesn't use the *64 functions (e.g., fopen64 instead of fopen).  The
latter is an alternative.  If you want to replace something I'd put the
highest priority on the program itself.  Maybe look at the build process
and add, if necessary -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.

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