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Re: [glibc PATCH] fcntl: put F_OFD_* constants under #ifdef __USE_FILE_OFFSET64


On Aug 18 2016, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> We should deprecate F_SETLK64 and struct lock64, too, and document that
> you should use _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64 if you need such locks.  That, and
> make fcntl type-safe (for both C and C++ with sufficiently recent GCC).

There is also _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE which enables the *64 API without
making it the default.

Andreas.

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