[wplug] let's get technical and see if anyone is as smart as they think they are

Jonathan Billings jsbillings at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 07:50:40 EDT 2005


On 6/2/05, Rob Prowel <tempest766 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> the system is pure 32 bit so 64 bit shouldn't be an issue.  the exact same
> avi is accessible via normal unix commands but fails when executing mplayer
> thru cfs.  I think mplayer is (statting) the file before opening and the
> stat is failing...cannot verify though because strace causes it to WORK. 

Most modern distros have are configured to be able to create and read
from filesystems over 2GB, the limit of 32 bit datatypes.  So, you'll
see that many systems use 64 bit versions of open() and stat() calls,
even if they're running on a 32 bit system.

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  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com



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