From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 10:31:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2608C37B8CB; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15389; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:31:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38DBB4EA.3334F7AE@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:33:14 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Dan Nelson , Markus Stumpf , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4 - large file - seek problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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). A patch for the less port maintainer would be equally useful, if the GNU owner is uninterested. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message