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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 7 Dec 1996 21:53:35 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 23 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58dl4v$3jt@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.32a7ec57@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <589l19$shp@cynic.portal.ca> <58a5e4$3kv@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91758 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1727 comp.unix.internals:11511 In article <58a5e4$3kv@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>, Doug Siebert <dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote: >Dunno what Sun is doing for that but HP has "ftello()" in 10.20 to handle >64 bit filesizes. I assume that's part of the large files summit changes. So in other words, `We have a perfectly good, standard function for doing this in our library already, so we're going to add another one just for the hell of it.' Lovely. >When longs go to 64 bits on Solaris and HP-UX respectively this kludge, >along with many of the others, can go away. Oh, sure! ISVs who are pushing the current proposal because they're too damn lazy to fix their programs in their entirity now are really going to let a library call go away once it's scattered throughout their code. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.