scp doesn't work with large (>2GB) files

[Theo de Raadt]

O_LARGEFILE is an API that should never have showed up.

It is ridiculous twisted bullshit.  Those vendors were foolish.

> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> 
> > why is O_LARGEFILE needed? is this some standard API?
> 
> It's not a standard API, except on Solaris/SunOS and Linux (as far as a
> quick look will tell me). HP-UX 11i has this flag and notes "This is a
> non-standard flag which may be used by 32-bit applications to access files
> larger than 2 GB". OTOH, on those platforms, open() will fail on files
> bigger than 2GB. This seems to me a good reason to include this flag on
> platforms where it is defined. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew
> 
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