Large files

[Miguel Barreiro]

Hi,

Support for large files (large being >= 2GB which is actually "moderately sized
files" these days) works ok on 64-bit systems. Doesn't anyone else use large
files on 32-bit systems? In case people is interested it works with the
following recipe:
- Either patch the file driver to open files with O_LARGEFILE and change a
couple variables from off_t to off64_t and make sure they are correctly packed
into 64-bit commands and responses or, much simpler:
$ export CFLAGS="-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" ; ./configure ; make
(remember to use clean sources). See the libc documentation for details on the
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS flag.

- Apply the attached patch to make file:position/2 work correctly (everything
else works without the patch, AFAIK). Currently
erts/emulator/drivers/common/efile_drv.c packs the return value of lseek(2)
using reply_Uint (which BTW is a bit misleading -- Uint is typedef'ed to a
pointer-sized variable and not an unsigned int as I would tend to expect. These
don't always match). The return value of lseek is off_t which may not be Uint
sized, so I added a reply_off_t function.
Patch generated against R108-B.


Regards,

Miguel
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