Re: [Dump-devel] dump and largefiles

[Andrea A. <an...@su...>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:48:30PM -0800, ty...@va... wrote:
> programs, it's probably more of a personal comfort issue of which you
> think feels better to you.

I dislike to see the explicit LFS interface. I like not having to write
O_LARGEFILE and truncate64 in the sources for example. This because on 64bit
platform I can avoid to compile with --enable-largefile and the source code
remains the same: without alien things like O_LARGEFILE and truncate64 inside.

About trustlevel of glibc folks I believe they're forced to get this interface
right on the long run (unfortunately).  Now that we have this stuff supported I
can at least take advantage of it at the source level.

About the librarians issue I'm not sure (what matters for the ABI is the
interface [not if the library internally recalls truncate or truncate64 in its
way while doing its work] and none librarians other than glibc is supposed to
provide those VFS calls so interface shouldn't break that easily). But
as said I'm not sure about this...

Andrea