Re: >2 gig files on 2.4.0-test6?

From: skp (skp@mirkwood.net)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 11:18:08 EST


On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 kernel@kvack.org wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, skp wrote:
>
> > That seemed to happen ~2 gig in size (I was making use of 'watch' at the
> > time to watch the file grow). Someone mentioned that it would be right
> > around the limit for a 32 bit integer.
>
> What distribution/glibc/ls and versions are you using?

Slackware 7.0. glibc 2.1.2. ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.

>
> > Interestingly enough, perl's stat() returns -1222967296 bytes.
>
> Is perl compiled with LFS support? Doesn't sound like it.

Good question. Perl was installed with the distribution - I haven't
looked at how it was compiled, yet.

>
> -ben
>
>

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