Re: lseek SEEK_END fails on a Toshiba 6007MB disk.

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:23:12 -0700

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

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