[PATCH] Fix strings to work with > 2GB files again on 32-bit arches

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:45:06AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:20:28PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > 2003-11-07 changes broke strings on arches with 32-bit off_t.
> > The following patch fixes this, although I'm not sure if the
> 
> What about all the other uses of get_file_size?  Shouldn't you be fixing
> get_file_size instead?

All the other tools work with object files and handling there
> 2GB files would require more changes than just get_file_size.
strings works on all files and is ATM the only one using fopen64/etc.

Plus I really think strings should work also on devices, which get_file_size
refuses and it should work also on zero length files, which get_file_size
doesn't like either.

	Jakub