Bug 165741

Summary: acct does not have Large File Support
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Peter Staubach <staubach>
Component: kernelAssignee: Peter Staubach <staubach>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: jbaron, rbiba
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0132 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Peter Staubach 2005-08-11 17:54:31 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #165006 +++

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Description of problem:
acct() does not have Large File support. If acct() input file is larger than
2GBs,  acct() does not start process accounting. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-32.EL.ppc64pseries

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use acct() system call with >2GBs input file. 
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3.
  

Actual Results:  accton: File too large

process accounting does not start

Expected Results:  process accounting starts

Additional info:

Ernie Petrides's comment:
I believe the handling for the acct() system call within the kernel needs
to add the O_LARGEFILE flag into the 2nd argument in the call to the
filp_open() function from the sys_acct() function (in kernel/acct.c) to
avoid SIGXFSZ signals being sent to commands while accounting is enabled
and the accounting file has exceeded 2 GBs in size.
Comment 1 Peter Staubach 2005-08-15 14:58:24 UTC 
Created attachment 117752 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 2 Peter Staubach 2005-08-26 14:28:33 UTC 
The changes are as Ernie has suggested.
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-07 19:32:18 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0132.html