Re: md5

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 11/07/05 

Date: 07 Nov 2005 10:58:33 GMT

Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su> writes:

>I wonder why Solaris should have this large file issue. In FreeBSD I
>use files over 2GB absolutely transparently. In fact, I have never
>encountered such a limitation other than in Windows with the FAT
>filesystem (which of course may testify to my limited experience
>rather than perfection of other OSes :)

Because FreeBSD at one time did away with binary compatibility
(it was really in a "nascent" state when it happened) and made
file offsets 64 bit.

Solaris had 32 bit fileoffsets and that meant it needed to make
some changes but it also needed to retain binary compatibility.

So 32 bit utilities can be made to handle "large files", but
it's not the default and not possible on Solaris 2.5.1 and before.

Casper 

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