From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: olarge -- force O_LARGEFILE on app binaries.
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:19:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030414101959.E26054@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304141554560.3687-100000@einstein31.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:03:32PM +0100
On Apr 14, 2003 16:03 +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Some time ago I was annoyed to see that ghostscript didn't support large
> files (>2G) and, although the fix to gs(1) was trivial it was very
> undesirable to have to recompile it (for lots of reasons like mismatch
> between the source set and fonts, libraries etc). So the only (efficient)
> solution in my case would have been to "modify" the behaviour of the gs
> binary without rebuilding it. One way is to use LD_PRELOAD feature but I
> found it easier to just knock up a simple kernel module olarge.o to do the
> job.
I don't see how this helps you very much. So now, instead of the kernel
complaining with EFBIG and/or SIGXFSZ, your 32-bit size offset wraps in
the application.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-14 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 15:03 Tigran Aivazian
2003-04-14 16:19 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2003-04-14 16:29 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-04-14 17:28 ` Andreas Dilger
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