how to use lseek() system call with over 2G files?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> writes:

> In the last episode (Jan 06), Alex said:
> > Hi everybody!
> > 
> > Some time ago there wasn't any possibility to create disk file larger 
> > than 2G and there was no problem with lseek().
> 
> Some time ago meaning around 1997?  FreeBSD has had 64-bit file access
> since at least 2.2.0.  I don't remember if earlier versions had support
> for it or not.

off_t has *never* been anything but 64-bit in FreeBSD.