Re: zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010910 10:22]: > Patrick Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe (not sure for a fact, but fairly sure) that zlib has nothing > > to do with this size limitation... it has something to do with kernel > > 2.2.x. > > I'm not completely sure about tha

Re: zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Patrick Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe (not sure for a fact, but fairly sure) that zlib has nothing > to do with this size limitation... it has something to do with kernel > 2.2.x. I'm not completely sure about that. The currently released version of gzip, which (afaik) zlib i

Re: zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-10 Thread Patrick Barrett
I believe (not sure for a fact, but fairly sure) that zlib has nothing to do with this size limitation... it has something to do with kernel 2.2.x. Files larger than 2gb can't exist with 2.2.x. I believe that for this to work though, not only must you be running 2.4.x, you must also compile your

zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-10 Thread Nicolas Salvagno
i have just question It is possible to recompile the zlib in order to create some gzipped files which are bigger than 2 Giga bytes ?? something like that. #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE Thanx -- ---

Re: zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-04 Thread F Zimmermann
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nicolas Salvagno wrote: > i have just question > > It is possible to recompile the zlib in order to create some gzipped files > which are bigger than 2 Giga bytes ?? > > something like that. > > > #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 > #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE > #define

zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-04 Thread Nicolas Salvagno
i have just question It is possible to recompile the zlib in order to create some gzipped files which are bigger than 2 Giga bytes ?? something like that. #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE Thanx -- ---