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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!sn.no!newsfeed.tip.net!news.seinf.abb.se!news.mdh.se!columba.udac.uu.se!caesar.udac.se!sparc1.mimer.se!mandrake From: per@mimer.se (Per Schröder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: Fri, 06 Dec 96 13:29:54 GMT Organization: Sysdeco Mimer AB Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58976t$jq9@sparc1.mimer.se> References: <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> <57ui72$4li@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5811fl$gj4@usenet.pa.dec.com> <581q7p$klv@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mandrake.mimer.se X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91706 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1719 comp.unix.internals:11501 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16918 In article <581q7p$klv@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de>, borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) wrote: -snip- >And, Sun didn't propose the new interface on its own but in cooperation >with a large number of other companies including DEC >(see http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/x_open.20Mar96.html). Ouch! A whole lot of new things to get right. Guess I have to do a lot of reprogramming here..... Maybe the following site might be of interest (from X/Open): http://xoweb.xopen.org/public/tech/aspen/lp64_wp.htm Note that Sunsoft participated in that paper. Maybe the reason for the "large file" paper is that Sun (an others) want to have "64-bit" files without having to support LP64? Or is Sun going to support true LP64 (which I guess removes the need for all the new interfaces in the "large file" paper) by doing yet another transition? -- /Per