Re: Torrents dying at nearly the right file size?
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:38:48PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <[🔎] 20060203193142.GB29347@andromeda>, Justin Pryzby writes:
> >I'm not sure whether or not this is right for this list; it just may
> >be. But I suspect it just a bug in the torrent packages. What
> >torrent are you using? Have you tried other torrent pacakges? Could
> >you ask the torrent maintainers whether 4GB files will work?
>
> >If they're not using long long integers (unsigned I guess), then this
> >will break.
>
> That was my suspicion. I'm using "bittorrent-3.4.2nb2 File sharing tool".
> I just figured I'd ask here because this was the group of people most likely
> to have needed to download testing images, and thus to be able to rule
> out "oh, yeah, the server's acting up".
It is written in python; from the readme, you might ask
Bram@irc.freenode.net#bittorrent..
piman at one point indicated that python has 64 bit problems ..
Justin
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