Re: 2.4 raw devices don't do 64bit offset?

[k.lichtenwalder@computer.org]

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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > sorry if this was already discussed, but I couldn't find it in the
> > archives. I'm trying to use xine (the linux dvd player) on
> > linux-2.4.3-ac3 and can't watch the whole dvd. The reason is that as
> > soon as the llseek sets a value in the offset_high field for sys_llseek,
> > I get a EINVAL back from the seek. Is this intentional? Or simply still
> > (only) a missing feature?
> 
> Did you open the file with open64() ?

Sorry for being a bit clueless, but it's just the application I was
using. I didn't check that further, because if I don't use the raw
device, it's working fine... So let me check...
No it's using open(), but sets -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Looks like this
is not enough for the raw devices?

Klaus
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