Re: sort 5.93 on Fedora Core 5 exits if intermediate file reaches 2 GB

[Paul Eggert]

Keith Stanley <address@hidden> writes:

> Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort
> (version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the
> temporary files reach the size of 2 GB. 

This sounds like you (or your installer) has built coreutils in
"small-file mode", which supports files only up to 2 GiB.  The
coreutils default is to build in "large-file mode", which doesn't have
that limit.

If you built coreutils, please check the build and see why it was done
in small-file mode.  You can look in config.h and check that it has a
"#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64".  If it doesn't, find out why it
doesn't.

If someone else built coreutils for you, please forward this message
to them.