Bug 30797

Summary: tcsh > operator truncates files to zero once they grow beyond 2 GB
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Andreas Helke <andreas.helke>
Component: tcshAssignee: Eido Inoue <havill>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Andreas Helke 2001-03-06 10:36:14 UTC 
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If you append to a file with   the  tcsh > operator the file gets truncated
to zero lenght as soon as it reaches 2 GB of size. bash > operator works
correctly. 

FTP 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a file a few bytes less than 2 GB
2. in tcsh shell run echo "a new text string"  > pretty_big_file
3. 
	

Actual Results:  File consists of xt string only. 2 GB of content are
missing.

Expected Results:  A complete file 

/bin/ftp has problems with big files too it only writes the first 2 GB if I
remember correctly.
Comment 1 Andreas Helke 2001-03-06 10:40:07 UTC 
There was a typo in my bug report. I meant the >> operator instead of the >
operator
Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2001-03-14 10:43:51 UTC 
*** Bug 31259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Eido Inoue 2001-03-14 10:45:50 UTC 
looks like tcsh needs llseek instead of the standard seek... fix appears to be
non-trivial.
Comment 4 Kurt Zingler 2001-04-02 22:42:16 UTC 
I have a similar problem with the tcsh.  I cannot get any file size larger than 4GB regardless of the method used to create the file.  
I was actually doing a load to a mysql db at the time.  I cannot seem to get passed the 4GB file size.  If I use bash
the problem goes away.
Comment 5 Kurt Zingler 2001-04-03 01:18:33 UTC 
on bash I can build files greater than 4GB without a problem (Fisher and Wolverine).  But to correct my last email, I still cannot 
create mysql tables larger than 4GB.