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From: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] selftest/net: fix FILE_SIZE for 32 bit
 architecture.
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:33:41 +0530
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>> >
>> >What about using more conventional size_t instead of "unsigned long long" ?
>> 
>> size_t is also equivalent to unsigned long and it will not hold value of (1 << 35) for 32 bit system.
>> So we can do two things.
> 
>Wouldn't the 'correct' type be off_t ?
>In any case, IIRC, you have to do really horrid things in Linux to
>access files larger than 2G on 32bit systems.
> 
>        David

Any inputs.

Thanks,
Maninder Singh