[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#530858: Bug#530858: Bug#530858: octave3.0: Unable to write files bigger than 2Go

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:59:36AM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 28-May-2009, David Kremer wrote:
> 
> | My system is unable to write file bigger than 2Go with octave on
> | i386 platform.
> | 
> | A script to reproduce it :
> | 
> | %% octave  script %%
> | fd = fopen( "test.bin" , "wb" ) ;
> | for k = [ 1:300 ]
> |     fwrite( fd , randn(1024,1024) , "double");
> | end ;
> | fclose( fd ) ;
> |     
> | ls -lh
> | %% end of script %%
> | 
> | The file should be bigger than 2Go, but his size remains 2Go.
> 
> This is a known problem, and isn't really something that the people
> making packages for Debian are likely to fix.

Would it make sense to report this via the Savannah tracker, so people
can find that information more easily?

	Thomas