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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:16:13 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PR bin/8637 fgetpos()/fsetpos() limited to 32 bits
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In the last episode (Dec 12), Matthew Dillon said:
> It should therefore be relatively easy to fix fgetpos() and fsetpos()
> to operate with > 32 bit quantities (as, I think, they were meant to)
> without changing any critical structures.

I have been working on this on and off, and am almost done.  The
patches will add X/OPen standard fseeko() and ftello(), fix
fgetpos/fsetpos, add an EOVERFLOW errno, and add the pathconf variable
_PC_FILESIZEBITS.  The only thing left to do is the pathconf changes
for ufs and ext2fs.
  
	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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