Question about large-file support
Peter.Rupp at ual.com
Peter.Rupp at ual.com
Wed Sep 13 14:55:06 EDT 2000
All,
Has there been an effort to support large-file functionality (where
available)? I've seen documentation that it is available on SUN, AIX,
and HP, however when I try to build Python (1.5.2/1.6, or 2.0b) on a
64-bit HP 11.00 V-class server (using HP's unbundled ansi-c compiler),
the configure script believes this system does not support large-files.
FWIW, large-files are supported on either 32-bit or 64-bit platforms
going back to HPUX 10.20, but it can get fairly convoluted...hp has a
white-paper (and examples) in /usr/share/doc/lg* that describe their
interface. Not only does the C-code need to properly support the
seek/open calls properly, but the file systems (hfs/vxfs) also contain
a flag that indicates if large-files are supported in the file-system.
It seems that large-file support is highly platform dependant.
My questions are then...
1) Would it be possible to modify the file-object to identify whether
large-files are supported, and actually usable?
2) I see large-file usage becomming more prevalent...has there been
any discussions of making this available in a uniform manner?
Please respond to peter.rupp at ual.com, as I cannot get usenet here.
Best regards,
==pete==
P. A. Rupp
United Airlines Corp. (WHQKT)
voice: 847-700-3226
email: peter.rupp at ual.com
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