Re: lstat: Value too large...

[Mark . Burgess]

On 26 Nov, Darren Dunham wrote:
>> > cfengine:annorax: RecursiveCheck was looking at
>> > /sse/annorax/knf/nervus/4663/pts0/nrva0000.avi when this
>> >  happened:
>> > cfengine:annorax: lstat: Value too large for defined data type
> 
> What OS was this?
> 
>> This message comes from the OS. Looks like a filesystem
>> limitation, not a cfengine one.
> 
> Sorta.  This appears to be a "large file" (bigger than 2G).  lstat() was
> passed the filename, but lstat will fail on such a file.  'truss' could
> be used to confirm that.  This limitation is there because regardless of
> the OS and filesystems, old code would not be able to handle the return
> values from such files.
> 
> If this is Solaris, I would assume that this binary was not compiled in
> the large file compilation environment.  I don't know if cfengine
> attempts to do that or not.
> 
> 

I think it depends on whether the 64 bit OS is installed.
The datastructures are not large enough in the 32bit OS
to handle this. I don't think it matters whether it is stat
or lstat, if that's what you mean. Either way, cfengine
cannot do much about this...

M

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