LARGEFILE_SUPPORT

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Gentle people,
   Do we have any concensus as to how to put this
support into Linux?  I haven't found any autoconf
macros for whether a system supports large files.

Do we just turn it on anyway, and see what happens?

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
New York, New York  10022

carter at qosient.com
Phone +1 212 588-9133
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Carter Bullard
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 5:48 PM
> To: 'Scott A. McIntyre'
> Cc: 'Argus Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: argusarchive.
> 
> 
> Hey Scott,
>    Well the changes I put in are important, but the
> (2^31 - 1) sure looks like a real binary clue, if
> I ever saw one.  Not much we can do if the system
> routine dumps core in this situation.
> 
>    We can put in a file size parameter and not generate
> files bigger than x, if that is the only solution.
> 
> Carter
> 
> Carter Bullard
> QoSient, LLC
> 300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
> New York, New York  10022
> 
> carter at qosient.com
> Phone +1 212 588-9133
> Fax   +1 212 588-9134
> http://qosient.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> > Scott A. McIntyre
> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:29 PM
> > To: Carter Bullard
> > Cc: 'Argus Mailing List'
> > Subject: Re: argusarchive.
> > 
> > 
> > >    Yes I found a set of problems relating to writing out queued
> > > records when the file has been removed.  I've fixed them in 
> > the 2.0.4
> > > code that is in the test directory.
> > > 
> > > ftp://qosient.com/dev/argus-2.0/argus-2.0.4.beta.1.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > Could you give this a try?
> > 
> > Yep, trying it now -- one other interesting point that will
> > no doubt confuse the matter.  I removed the argusarchive cron 
> > script entirely, and it still died.  File size is 2147483647 
> > bytes, 86086413 packets..
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> > 
> > 
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