From 50be7e430672e01a0e362b9c7668de42612e4283 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:52:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (Ports): File access uses LFS.

---
 doc/ref/api-io.texi | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/ref/api-io.texi b/doc/ref/api-io.texi
index 126fb0fde..0d30c4d2a 100644
--- a/doc/ref/api-io.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/api-io.texi
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ rely on that to keep it away from system limits.  An explicit call to
 If program flow makes it hard to be certain when to close then this
 may be an acceptable way to control resource usage.
 
+All file access uses the ``LFS'' large file support functions when
+available, so files bigger than 2 Gbytes (@math{2^31} bytes) can be
+read and written on a 32-bit system.
+
 @rnindex input-port?
 @deffn {Scheme Procedure} input-port? x
 @deffnx {C Function} scm_input_port_p (x)