[ILUG] File size limit exceeded

[Mark Kilmartin]

Thanks Paul thats has gotten it.

I now just have to track down all the places that it is need in the
proper app.

I owe you at least one drink for this.

MArk

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:10, Paul Jakma wrote:
> for C, add 
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> #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
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> to the top of your source. (before any #includes).
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> works with C.. hopefully it'd work with C++.
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> On 7 Feb 2002, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
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> > Can anybody help with the above error.
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> > I have narrowed the problem down to the following.
> > Please read the full message before jumping to the obvious conclusion!
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> > I have a small and very simple c++ (About as basic as it can get)
> > that will write an amount of data to a file the size is supplied as
> > command line arguments.
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> > If I specify a file size of under 2G everything is fine.
> > However If I specify a size over 2G I get the error File size limit
> > exceeded.
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> > I have tried this on two different systems.
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> > A RH7.2 box with the 2.4.7 enterprise kernel as supplied by RH
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> > And on a Debian Woody box with a custom 2.4.13 kernel.
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> > If I recompile the C++ program to write to stdout instead of a file and
> > then pipe the output into a file everything is fine.
> > I have a file above 2G.
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> > Anybody have any ideas.
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> > Oh it is a ReiserFS on top of LVM if that makes a difference.
> > And it is a 3.6.x version of reiserFS so it doesn't have the @G limit
> > that the 3.5.x versions had.
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