[OpenAFS] clarification on client caches
Derrick J Brashear
shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:35:35 -0400 (EDT)
Hm. I forgot to take the list off that reply. I suppose it's harmless
enough to tell you all I am dumb.
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Sorry, *BSD supports it, Solaris supports it, MacOS supports it, I'm
>> fairly sure windows supports it, too.. So, MANY of the OSes out there
>> support it... I can't claim that ALL the supported OSes have a native
>> 64-bit integer type, but I would bet a dollar to a dime that a
>> majority of them do.
>
> Yes. Which is why it's defined for them, also, in 1.3.x at least.
>
>
>> My confusion is about what AFS_64BIT_ENV actually signifies. Does it
>> mean "we have a 64-bit integer type"? Or "we support 64-bit file
>> lengths"? Or "this is a native 64-bit OS?" Or does it mean something
>> completely different?
>
> AFS_64BIT_CLIENT is largefile
> AFS_64BIT_ENV is "there is some 64 bit integer type"
>
> unfortunate. but i don't think i chose the names. i was just too dumb to
> realize this was going to happen.
>
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