On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:44:01PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Yes, I found after sending the letter. But since this only works when > you compile the program yourself, and the database acording to the > support should not suffer from this limit, I thought maybe there was > some magic flip I had to switch. Some key that made lseek syscalls use > the 64-bit version if available or something like that. Perhaps some > missing links from src/include(lib) to kernel-src/include(lib) or some > other issue I'd missed.
But that couldn't possibly work. The program is compiled. It has compiled into it code which knows that off_t is 4 bytes long. E.g. it only allocates 4 byts on the stack for off_t, that sort of thing. It couldn't possibly work with an 8 byte off_t. Change the size of a data type, in a language like C, will always force a recompile... Jules
