Philip Warner wrote:
> At 10:42 AM 23/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >What I am concerned about are cases that fail at runtime, specifically
> >during a restore of a >2gig file.
>
> Please give an example that would still apply assuming we get a working
> seek/tell pair that works with whatever we use as an offset?
If we get this, everything is fine. I have done that for BSD/OS today.
I may need to do the same for NetBSD/OpenBSD too.
> If you are concerned about reading a dump file with 8 byte offsets on a
> machine with 4 byte off_t, that case and it's permutations are already covered.
No, I know that is covered because it will report a proper error message
on the restore on the 4-byte off_t machine.
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