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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Markus Friedl wrote:
> i still don't see how a flag to open(2) can help if off_t is 32 bit?

If I remember correctly you can compile with some option that turns
off_t into a long long 64bit type. glibc will use a second set of
64bit syscall for file operations as well when present in the kernel
so it all becomes transparent to the application.

Wichert.

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