[Python-Dev] TELL64

[Trent Mick]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:55:36AM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:10:26PM -0800, Trent Mick wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that these systems lie when they "say" (according to
> > Python's configure tests for HAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT) that they have
> > largefile support. This seems to have happened for a particular release of
> > BSD (which has since been fixed). I think that the Right(tm) (meaning the
> > cleanest solution where the tests and definitions in the code actually
> > represent the truth) answer is a proper configure test (sort of as Greg
> > suggests). I don't really feel comfortable writing that patch (because (1)
> > lack of time and (2) inability to test, I don't have any access to any of
> > these BSD machines).
> 
> There is no (longer any) 'single BSD release', so I doubt it has 'since been
> fixed' :) 

Okay sure (showing my ignorance). My only understanding was that this
"lying" was the case for some unspecified BSDs a while ago but that the
latest releases of any of them *did* have largefile support.

> 
> I tried to fix the test, but I have been completely unable to find a proper
> test. There doesn't seem to be a 'standard' one, and I wasn't able to figure
> out what, say, 'zsh' uses -- black autoconf magic, for sure.

Hmmm... if one code encode whether or not a 64-bit fseek could be
implemented (either using fseek, fseek0, fseek64, _fseek, fsetpos/fgetpos,
etc.) in a short C program then that would be the test (or at least most of
the test, might have to see if ftell could be implemented as well). Or are
there other requirements?


Trent

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Trent Mick
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