Added information about large file support

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Joey Schulze 2003-09-04 13:22:23 +00:00
parent 795245bfaa
commit 293bb81f22
2 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CC= gcc
#CFLAGS= -g -DSYSV -Wall
#LDFLAGS= -g
CFLAGS= $(RPM_OPT_FLAGS) -O3 -DSYSV -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -fno-strength-reduce
# -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
LDFLAGS= -s
# Look where your install program is.

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
Very important information before using version 1.3
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Important information
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The included version of syslogd behaves in a slightly different manner
to the one in former releases. Please review the following important
@ -63,3 +63,10 @@ differences:
these scripts should remove all old .pid files found in /var/run.
This will insure that klogd and syslogd start properly even if prior
executions have been terminated harshly.
* Large file support, i.e. support to write to log files that are
larger than 2 GB is not part of syslogd, but a matter of the Glibc
emitting different system calls to the kernel interface. To support
large files you'll have to compile syslogd with the compiler defines
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE so that glibc adjusts the
system calls.