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Re: read() cant read files larger than 2.1 gig on a 64 bit system

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: glide creme <glidecreme at gmail dot com>
Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:00:22 -0500
Subject: Re: read() cant read files larger than 2.1 gig on a 64 bit system
References: <431f8c1a0912251330l266dd23blae9d425b65e04162@mail.gmail.com> <200912261158.41895.vapier@gentoo.org> <431f8c1a0912261407p132c4ee1i1c859e71104b68c4@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 26 December 2009 17:07:35 glide creme wrote:
> Instead of the strange "  If  count is greater than SSIZE_MAX, the
> result is unspecified.", which implies that a value smaller than
> SSIZE_MAX is supported.

seems pretty clear to me.  dont do it.
-mike

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