[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fwd: [PATCH] seeking in large files on SMB shares

[Joey Parrish]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:42:25PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> I was asked to forward this mail, so I do that now, although I think the 
> patch itself is not correct.
> What I dislike about this patch is that it misuses fstat to try to 
> detect if the file is seekable. In addition IMHO a file where 
> lseek(f,0,SEEK_END) doesn't work effectively isn't seekable.
> Does anyone know why it doesn't work and provide a better patch?

I agree, this is a bad fix.  But I often store my large files on another
machine and watch over samba.

IIUC, samba isn't able to declare a file to be >2GB.  My large files all
ls -sh as some ridiculous number on the order of a few terabytes.

I don't have a better fix...

--Joey

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