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SubjectRe: sendfile -EOVERFLOW on AMD64
Andi Kleen wrote:
: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz> writes:
: >
: > The image (FC2-i386-DVD.iso) has 4370640896 bytes. The FTP server is native
: > x86_64 binary, not a 32-bit one.
:
: sys_sendfile limits itself dumbly to 2GB even on 64bit architectures.
: This patch should fix it on x86-64, although other 64bit ports may
: need a similar patch. Just removing the limit in read_write
: is not easy, because it would need fixes in all the 32bit emulation
: layers.
:
It partly helped, thanks. But there is still one more problem
- it looks like sendfile() returns 32-bit value instead of 64-bit.
My debug info looks like this:

sendfile(offset=0, count=4370640896)
= -767073160, offset=3527894136

where I do

long val = sendfile(...); printf(...%ld..., val);

-Yenya


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