Bug#200750: pdksh ulimit file size problem, file can not be over 2GB

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

rgselk wrote:

> Package: pdksh
> Version: 5.2.14-8
>
> The following perl script should create a file of 2147491840 bytes, but
> it stops at 2147483647 (2^31-1).
> As far as I remember this has something to do with changed ulimit
> structure: 64 <-> 32 bit gives (int32)-1 == (int64)0x00000000ffffffff
[...]
Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> closing with the pdksh → mksh migration, just tested this
> on amd64, and it works.

Maybe rgselk is on i386.  I'm guessing it also works there, though.

Thanks,
Jonathan