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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Supersedes: <cancel.casper.32aa9981@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 8 Dec 1996 11:33:38 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.32aa9981@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <5844u3$mb@saltmine.radix.net> <587t33$2va@anorak.coverform.lan> <casper.32a7ec57@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <589l19$shp@cynic.portal.ca> <58a5e4$3kv@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91774 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1729 comp.unix.internals:11519 dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes: >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. >When longs go to 64 bits on Solaris and HP-UX respectively this kludge, >along with many of the others, can go away. Correct. As others have pointed out, fsetpos/fgetpos are the preferred interfaces. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.