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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Kallol Biswas <kallol@efi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lseek SEEK_END fails on a Toshiba 6007MB disk.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:23:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020220172312.I1506@lynx.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C7433F8.8FB86B39@efi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C7433F8.8FB86B39@efi.com>; from kallol@efi.com on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:40:40PM -0800

On Feb 20, 2002  15:40 -0800, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> offset = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> 
> lseek: Value too large for defined data type

You need to use a 64-bit lseek (e.g. llseek or lseek64).  This can
be done with '#define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE' and/or '#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE'
and/or '#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-21  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-20 23:40 Kallol Biswas
2002-02-21  0:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-21  0:23 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]

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