file too large

William Lee Irwin III wli@holomorphy.com
Fri, 9 May 2003 06:42:38 -0700


William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
>> if (!(filp->f_flags & O_LARGEFILE) && inode->i_size > MAX_NON_LFS)
>>         return -EFBIG;
>> What does strace(1) say it's doing?

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:26:25PM +0200, Ketil Z. Malde wrote:
> It says
> open("big_file", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
> So it sounds like this is right on the money. (Even if the comment you
> included is wrong, this applies with O_RDONLY, too)

Oh, the comment is bogus. It's not checking in that function for O_RDONLY.
I'll send in a patch.


-- wli