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Date:      Tue, 4 May 1999 12:28:30 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
Subject:   Re: MFC request
Message-ID:  <19990504122829.A77220@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905041538.IAA15873@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>; from "Bruce A. Mah" on Tue May  4 08:38:14 GMT 1999
References:  <199905041538.IAA15873@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>

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In the last episode (May 04), Bruce A. Mah said:
> I'm wondering what would be the chances of getting a MFC for the
> changes from bin/8637?  This patch allows fgetpos(3), fsetpos(3), and
> ftell(3) to work with file sizes in excess of 2 GB, which I need for
> some mods I'm doing to tcpslice(1).  I haven't vetted out the manpage
> changes, but the code seems to Do The Right Thing (TM) when I've
> dropped it into an otherwise-3.1-RELEASE system.

I can even confirm that the changes work fine on 2.2.8, since that's
what I originally wrote them for :)

> It looks like this PR is still open, even though its included patches have 
> been committed...is this because of the discussion of changes to errno.h?

I think the problem was with lib/libc/gen/errlst.c.   Here's a snippet
from an email Dmitrij Tejblum sent me:

Dmitrij Tejblum wrote:
> I'm afraid, it may confuse programs dynamically linked with old
> version of libc, especially on ELF systems. :-( IIRC, NetBSD changed
> sys_errlist to be pointer, rather than array, for this reason...

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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