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Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
- To: leitner at fefe dot de
- Subject: Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 27 Sep 2000 14:26:15 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000927120428.15391.qmail@fefe.de>
>>>>> leitner writes:
>> Submitter-Id: net
>> Originator: Felix von Leitner
>> Organization:
>> Confidential: no
>> Synopsis: large file support not working?
[...]
>> Kernel headers: 2.2.17
That's your problem!
>> Description:
> GNU fileutils 4.0z allegedly have large file support with
> glibc, and I'm using linux-2.4.0-test8 which supports large
> files and I have a 4 gig file, yet ls -l fails with
> "ls: largefile: Value too large for defined data type"
Read FAQ 1.8.
Everything works fine here, recompile with newer kernel headers:
gromit:/tmp:[0]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/builds/glibc/20000912-main /builds/glibc/20000912-main/elf/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/ls -lH large-file-with-holes.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 aj users 6.4G Sep 27 12:23 large-file-with-holes.dat
Andreas
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