[Python-Dev] large file support

[Guido van Rossum]

> In that case, I recommend to backport the machinery that enables LFS
> from 2.2. If this machinery fails to detect LFS support on a system,
> there is a good chance that your processing of EOVERFLOW fails on that
> system as well.

That sounds a good plan, though painful (much configure.in hacking,
and didn't we switch to a newer version of autoconf?).

Can you help?  2.1 is still a popular release, and large files will
become more and more common as it grows older...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)