Re: Max size for stream file APIs -- RPG400-L

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ya, I saw that in the docs. Thanks, Scott.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 7:47 PM Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

No, there's no harm in using the regular read/write APIs. In fact,
that's what people normally do.

In fact, there's not much reason to call open64(). Simply calling the
"normal" open with the O_LARGEFILE flag does the same thing.

On 9/4/2020 5:53 PM, Brad Stone wrote:

Is there any harm in leaving the read, write and close APIs as they are
now? Most of my applications read and write in specified size chunks and
won't ever try to do more than so much data at a time.

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