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@@ -1602,6 +1602,17 @@ to fall back to regular polling again even with inotify, but changes are usually detected immediately, and if the file exists there will be no polling. +=head3 ABI Issues (Largefile Support) + +Libev by default (unless the user overrides this) uses the default +compilation environment, which means that on systems with optionally +disabled large file support, you get the 32 bit version of the stat +structure. When using the library from programs that change the ABI to +use 64 bit file offsets the programs will fail. In that case you have to +compile libev with the same flags to get binary compatibility. This is +obviously the case with any flags that change the ABI, but the problem is +most noticably with ev_stat and largefile support. + =head3 Inotify When C<inotify (7)> support has been compiled into libev (generally only |