no largefile support for Solaris character devices!

[Pål Baltzersen]

> Even though passing --with-largefiles to INN 2.2.2's configure
> causes storage/cnfs/cnfs.c to be compiled with the right options to
> enable largefile support on Solaris 2.6 (that is,
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64), my 8GB CNFS buffer
> failed with seek errors when it hit 2GB.

Works on Solaris 7, not on 2.6.
Though with 2.2.2, as just mentoned on this list, you shold probably also apply this:

*** innd/his.c.orig     Sat Dec 26 17:16:10 1998
--- innd/his.c  Fri Feb 18 18:57:49 2000
***************
*** 86,92 ****
           for files freopen()-ed in append mode according to POSIX 1003.1.
           ftell() is used later on to determine a new article's offset
           in the history file. Fopen() uses freopen() internally. */
!       if (fseek(HISwritefp, 0L, SEEK_END) == -1) {
            syslog(L_FATAL, "cant fseek to end of %s %m", HIShistpath);
            exit(1);
        }
--- 86,92 ----
           for files freopen()-ed in append mode according to POSIX 1003.1.
           ftell() is used later on to determine a new article's offset
           in the history file. Fopen() uses freopen() internally. */
!       if (fseeko(HISwritefp, (OFFSET_T)0, SEEK_END) == -1) {
            syslog(L_FATAL, "cant fseek to end of %s %m", HIShistpath);
            exit(1);
        }


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