From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 23 17: 7:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFAB37C635; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA49222; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:07:40 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Nelson Cc: Markus Stumpf , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4 - large file - seek problems In-Reply-To: <20000323171836.A59166@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > The tail bug has been reported as PR bin/14786, and it looks like > there's a patch in there. See if it fixes your problem. As for less, > you can contact the author and see if he can fix it; it's not a stock > FreeBSD program. This is certainly the path to pursue, although I'm not sure how much luck it would have. The GNU maintainers typically are focussed mainly on linux, which I believe does not have support for 64-bit file sizes at the kernel level (perhaps this has been fixed). Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message