Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

From: Chris Wedgwood (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 28 1998 - 16:14:42 PDT

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On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:03:44PM +0200, Felix Schroeter wrote:

> Shouldn't the internal sum better be 64-bit? After all, FFS is able
> to do files > 2^32 bytes...

No.

read(2), etc. return the number of bytes transferred - so it must be
within an unsigned machine word.

On OSs where the ABI supports large machine words than 32-bits, then
files over 2/4GB are indeed possible.

-cw

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