From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: The perl rpm which comes with AS 2.1 is not compile to support large files, this is a configure option. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.6.1-26.72.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the following perl program: #!/usr/bin/perl open(OUT, ">test2.5g.bin") or die "Can't open test2.5g.bin to write!\n"; $a = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < 1024; $i++) { $a = $a."A"; } for ($i = 0; $i < 2621440; $i++) { print OUT $a; print "1K block #$i\r"; } close(OUT); print "\n\n"; Actual Results: Program will core dump with: Filesize limit exceeded (core dumped) Created file is: 2099204 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ulf ulf 2147483647 Jul 22 14:31 test2.5g.bin Tested as normal user (limit shows "filesize unlimited") and as root. Expected Results: Should create a 2.5GB file. Additional info:
large file support breaks ABI compatibility. this will not be enabled for RHEL AS 2.1. Future releases may support large files.