Bug 98834

Summary: Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Umaid Singh Rajpurohit <sunadm>
Component: tcshAssignee: Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Description Umaid Singh Rajpurohit 2003-07-09 12:42:57 UTC
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Description of problem:
tcsh does not allow creation of Files larger then 2 GB. It crashes 
with the following error :
Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tcsh-6.10-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.creat any text file of 100MB 
2.run a for loop to append the contents of the same file in to some test file. 
when It reaches @ 2GB it will crash with the error.
3. Not the case with other shells (like bash)
    

Actual Results:  Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)

Expected Results:  It should allow to create file lager then 2 GB just like bash

Additional info:

>foreach c `xxxxxx@linuxfarm [No View]>foreach c (`seq 1 15`)
foreach? cat /proj/linux/tmp/messages >> /tmp/testfile 
foreach? ls -alh /tmp/testfile
foreach? end
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxx  yyyyy     1.4G Jul  9 18:00 /tmp/testfile
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxx  yyyyy     1.6G Jul  9 18:01 /tmp/testfile
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxx  yyyyy     1.8G Jul  9 18:01 /tmp/testfile
Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxx  yyyyy     2.0G Jul  9 18:01 /tmp/testfile
Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped)
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxx yyyyy     2.0G Jul  9 18:01 /tmp/testfile

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2004-08-17 13:13:36 UTC
tcsh-6.12 enables large file support on Linux.