Re: Trouble with the filesize limit

[Eric Lammerts]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Steven Newbury wrote:
> It isn't possible for me to download more than 2GiB.

> I've tried programs d4x, wget etc., each of them have received a
> SIGXFSZ and exited at 2GiB.

Probably none of those apps were compiled with
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ...

> Strangely I am able to create much larger files with dd.

That one probably is... (the coreutils configure script enables that
automatically)

Eric
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