Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Sunday 09 December 2001 08:50, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Side question: are the GNU utilities afflicted by the 2 GB limit?
> > Can dd properly handle 2GB+ files.
>
> Easy to test:
>
>     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=4200000
>
> Fails on my sysstem:
>
>     [karsten@ego:karsten]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024
> count=4200000 dd: writing `bigfile': File too large
>     2097152+0 records in
>     2097151+0 records out

So, okay, how do we fix it? It is it a kernel or a glibc problem? I'm 
running 2.4.16 and unstable libc6 (rebuilt for woody).

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