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Authored by alc on Mar 15 2017, 9:35 PM.
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While reviewing all of the use cases of OFF_TO_IDX(), I observed that vmoff()'s return type is vm_offset_t rather than vm_ooffset_t. Consequently, sendfile() could have problems transmitting files larger than 4 GB on 32-bit architectures.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 15 2017, 9:40 PM
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