I will look into it. I just rebuild the rpms from the SRPMS with the
options that RedHat provides.
-connie sieh
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Daniel Widyono wrote:
> As meo suggested, this is the shell. *csh exhibits this behavior (STILL!).
> bash doesn't. csh needs to be recompiled with large file support. E.g. use
> all the macros that redhat uses for default RPM compiles, such as:
>
> CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=i686 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE"
>
> Of course only the file_offset_bits matters here, but that's the line I get
> for default RPM compiles. Personally, I don't use *csh, so I don't care.
> But someone might want to create an SL_ rpm to replace tcsh :)
>
> I seem to recall that children of tcsh were also affected. To download a
> large file, try changing your login shell to bash, logout and back in, then
> run wget.
>
> Dan W.
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:41:22AM -0500, Stefano Stalio wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:45:21 +0100, Alan J. Flavell
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > >On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, csieh wrote:
> > >
> > >> Stefano,
> > >>
> > >> I create files that big all the time.
> > >
> > >I had no problem creating such files with e.g the tar command,
> > >
> > >But when I tried piping program output with e.g >>file.name ,
> > >it expired at the 2GB boundary. Is this perhaps a limitation
> > >in the shell, rather than in the filesystem itself?
> > >
> > >cheers
> >
> > Alan,
> >
> > you are right, I can create big (>2Gb) files using the tar command
> > and create big ISO images for dvd writing,
> > but, as you said, I can not create files bigger than 2Gb
> > piping program output to a file ( ./program > file.name )
> > and I can not download a DVD iso image bigger than 2Gb ( i tried
> > both wget and mozilla). So it must be application-dependent.
>
> --
> -- Daniel Widyono http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~widyono
> -- Liniac Project, CIS Dept., SEAS, University of Pennsylvania
> -- Mail: CIS Dept, 302 Levine 3330 Walnut St Philadelphia, PA 19104
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