On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:39:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.69-mm3.gz
  Will appear sometime at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.69/2.5.69-mm3/

This comment looks stale; AIUI the behavior coded is what's desired.
This came up in a discussion with some implementors of a language
runtime about the cause of failures to open large files.

-- wli

diff -prauN linux-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c open-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c

--- linux-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c	Wed Apr  9 06:42:36 2003
+++ open-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c	Fri May  9 07:19:25 2003

@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Called when an inode is about to be open.
- * We use this to disallow opening RW large files on 32bit systems if
+ * We use this to disallow opening large files on 32bit systems if
  * the caller didn't specify O_LARGEFILE.  On 64bit systems we force
  * on this flag in sys_open.
  */
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