From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: aiocb member aio_offset is off_t which is a signed 32bit int Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 14:28:38 +0200 Message-ID: <554A08F6.2090003@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jonny Grant Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 05/01/2015 12:11 AM, Jonny Grant wrote: > On 12 April 2015 at 09:03, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > wrote: >> Hi Jonny, >> >> On 30 June 2014 at 12:51, Jonny Grant wrote: >>> Hello mtk >>> >>> Is it worth clarifying something on this page: >>> >>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/aio.7.html >>> >>> off_t aio_offset; /* File offset */ >>> >>> Could clarify that off_t on a 32bit system will be a signed 32bit >>> integer, meaning the maximum seek size is 2GB. >>> >>> I think this means that aio can only be used to access files up to >>> 2GB. >> >> I don't believe this is true. See and the defintion of this field there. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael > > Hi Michael > > ok, many thanks. > > BTW, the link at bottom of aio.7 is 403: > http://www.squid-cache.org/~adrian/Reprint-Pulavarty-OLS2003.pdf > > My own opinion is that links change regularly.. so often simpler to avoid them. Hi Jonny, I've fixed the link. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html