Im most familiar with solaris.  Atleast on solaris lseek interprets its
signed arg as the unsigned value with the same bit pattern.  I cannot be
certain that this is common across other operating systems.
On Jul 13, 2011 8:09 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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>> In addition I would like the posix_lseek function to accept a value
>> larger than 2^63 as a seek offset
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> How would it work? The C lseek() takes a signed (64-bit) offset as
argument, so we would have to call it multiple times anyway.
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