[CM] file-size limit in snd?

[Marty Shannon, RHCE]

Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
> 
> > Cant write files larger than 2GB in snd.
> 
> Right -- I've been putting off dealing with this, but will tackle
> it now that someone wants it.  Basically a bunch of "int"s have to
> become "off_t"s;

No, they must become "offset_t"s.  "off_t" is typically only 32 bits.

> and it took me awhile to find the magic macros
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS (to enable the Large File System in Linux),
> and AC_SYS_LARGEFILE (autoconf).  I estimate this will be fully
> incoporated within a week or less.  If you just want to write
> a big file (not edit it), add this at the top of snd.h and
> recompile Snd:
> 
> #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
> 
> That will automatically pull in all the 64-bit file IO functions.
> I wrote a 4GB file after doing this, just to check it.
> A remaining question: what's the right way to handle
> these off_t's in fprintf?  (%ld + (long) works but seems
> incorrect in the long run).

They must be %lld and "long long"s.

	Cheers,
	Marty
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Marty Shannon, RHCE, Independent Computing Consultant
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