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SubjectRe: Trouble with the filesize limit
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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
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Steven Newbury <steven.newbury1@ntlworld.com>

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