From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 6 17:18: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B6514D13 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21238; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23699; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29154; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199908070017.RAA29154@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn "quad_t and portability" (Aug 6, 3:29pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quad_t and portability Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Aug 6, 3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote: } Subject: quad_t and portability } } Hi folks, } } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of u_long. This is } necessary if wc(1) is to produce sensible results for files containing } more than 4GB of data. Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the maximum system file size. Then the only problem is figuring a portable means of printing the result ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message