Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Trouble with the filesize limit | From | Steven Newbury <> | Date | Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:25:48 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:45, Steven Newbury wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:21, Eric Lammerts wrote: > > 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 ... > > > Okay I've recompiled wget with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Now I've got: > get: progress.c:706: create_image: Assertion `insz <= dlsz' failed. > when I try to continue the download... This, I guess, is a bug in wget. Are the various types like size_t set correctly for FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, or should special care be taken within each app to ensure types of sufficient size are used?
> > > > Strangely I am able to create much larger files with dd. > > > > That one probably is... (the coreutils configure script enables that > > automatically) > > > > Eric -- Steven Newbury <steven.newbury1@ntlworld.com>
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