On 26 Oct 00 at 23:15, kernel@kvack.org wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > doing an ls -l shows:
> > ls: x: Value too large for defined data type
> >
> > NOTE: this worked in 2.4.0-test6 and I believe it stopped working around
> > test8, but I'm not sure. May have been around test7.
>
> Previous kernels allowed up to 4gb to be returned by the old stat.
> Upgrade your glibc and fileutils -- most recent distributions (Red Hat,
> SuSE, ...) are LFS ready, and the only reports I've seen about this
> concerned Slackware.
And Debian :-( It is hard to get rid of such file - GNU 'rm' complains
too, as it tries to stat that file first :-( Fortunately
echo -n > x; rm x
works. I filled bugreport some time ago (when 2.1.94 come to woody), but
it was closed, as there are no 2.4.x headers in Debian, so it is not
possible to recompile glibc against them... Recompiling glibc is enough
for woody, BTW.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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