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Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
From: chris () CYBERNET CO NZ (Chris Wedgwood)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:14:42 +1200
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:03:44PM +0200, Felix Schroeter wrote:
Shouldn't the internal sum better be 64-bit? After all, FFS is able to do files > 2^32 bytes...
No. read(2), etc. return the number of bytes transferred - so it must be within an unsigned machine word. On OSs where the ABI supports large machine words than 32-bits, then files over 2/4GB are indeed possible. -cw
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