Changeset 1c7f381 in mainline for uspace/lib/posix/src/string.c

Timestamp:

2018-01-22T20:12:00Z (7 years ago)

Author:

Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky.jiri@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

e0f47f5

Parents:

df2e5514

Message:

Add nonstandard ftell64() and fseek64().

Currently, the C standard does not define any functions that can access file
offset with full 64-bit range. Standard ftell()/fseek() are nonportable on files
over 2 GB, while fgetpos()/fsetpos() can work with arbitrary length file, but
keep the position opaque, and no cannot be used for seeks to known numerical
offsets.

POSIX defines ftello()/fseeko(), which _can_ be 64-bit, but aren't guaranteed
to be by the standard, and come with additional baggage. Also, the naming
is rather awkward.

In short, there is no portable interface for this functionality, so
a pair of nonstandard functions is an adequate answer for this.

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