Re: Bash scripting and large files: input with the read builtin from a redirection gives unexpected result with files larger than 2GB.

[Andreas Schwab]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Jean-François Gagné wrote:
>> > uname output: Linux xxxxxxxx 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 09:42:28 UTC 
>> > 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> > Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> Compile and run the attached program.  If it prints out `4', which it does
>> on all of the Debian systems I've tried, file offsets are limited to 32
>> bits, and accessing files greater than 2 GB is going to be unreliable.
>
> Apparently all of the Debian systems you have tried are 32-bits
> systems.  On the reporter's 64-bit amd64 system it will print out 8.

But it won't help if you don't use it.

diff --git a/lib/sh/zread.c b/lib/sh/zread.c
index 0fd1199..3731a41 100644
--- a/lib/sh/zread.c
+++ b/lib/sh/zread.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ zsyncfd (fd)
      int fd;
 {
   off_t off;
-  int r;
+  off_t r;
 
   off = lused - lind;
   r = 0;

Andreas.

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