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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: lseek patch for 2.2.18pre23
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On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> And in LFS (that means also 2.4.x) the >> 32 doesn't make any sense in lseek
> and should be removed:

Actually, the >> 32 part was there to avoid doing the long long comparison
on x86.  Granted, that probably doesn't matter.

		-ben

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