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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:32 -0700
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: quad_t and portability
Message-ID:  <199908070017.RAA29154@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> "quad_t and portability" (Aug  6,  3:29pm)

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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 ...


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