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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!sun!ultrix!andrewr From: andrewr@ultrix.Sun.COM (Andrew Roach) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 6 Dec 1996 22:07:53 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58a5fp$ht2@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> <57ui72$4li@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5811fl$gj4@usenet.pa.dec.com> <581q7p$klv@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <58976t$jq9@sparc1.mimer.se> Reply-To: andrewr@Eng.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: ultrix.eng.sun.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91655 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1709 comp.unix.internals:11490 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16903 In article <58976t$jq9@sparc1.mimer.se>, per@mimer.se (Per Schröder) writes: |> |> Note that Sunsoft participated in that paper. |> Maybe the reason for the "large file" paper is that Sun (an others) want to |> have "64-bit" files without having to support LP64? Or is Sun going to |> support true LP64 (which I guess removes the need for all the new |> interfaces in the "large file" paper) by doing yet another transition? |> |> -- |> /Per Some of this may be old news but..... The LFS paper came out of the '64on32' work (how to support 64 bit file offsets on a 32 bit system). I suggest that everyone who is interested in Large Files take a visit to the SAS web page. The entire LFS story is documented there. The Aspen (X/Open site) paper is the 'preferred' data model for native 64-bit programming. FYI: I was a member of both teams and also the Project Lead for Sun's Large File implementation. Andy Senior Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems Inc.