Bug 64812

Summary:	largefile support is missing
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Chip Turner <cturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Kjetil T. Homme 2002-05-13 04:18:20 UTC

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Description of problem:
Perl can not open large files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make large file somehow:
$ ls -lh /var/spool/news/cnfs/big1 
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news         5.0G May 13 06:14 /var/spool/news/cnfs/big1

2. enter oneliner:
$ perl -e 'open(F, "/var/spool/news/cnfs/big1") || die "$!\n";'
File too large



Expected Results:  the script should have terminated without error.

Additional info:

$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.6.1-34.99.6

Comment 1 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-05-13 07:42:26 UTC

Yeah, largefile support doesn't seem to work with perl-5.6.1-34.99.6 from RedHat
7.3. perl -V reports    -Uuselargefiles   but it doesn't seem to help. The below
url is a link to a mailing list thread that mentions this problem in previous
verions of RedHat.

http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg63296.html

Comment 2 Chip Turner 2002-05-13 14:45:52 UTC

-Uuselargefiles means to UNdefine it; -Duselargefiles defines it.  since large
file support breaks binary compatibility, and since 7.0 shipped without large
file support for perl, the 7.x series must ship without it.  If you click
further into the thread you quote, you'll see this post, which should help
explain it more:

http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg63385.html