From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 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. 2. 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.
The kernel changes to handle a large accounting file seem fairly obvious. The change is as Ernie suggests. The rest of the accounting support in the kernel looks large file safe. However, are the user level programs to deal with the accounting file at least largefile aware or perhaps largefile safe?
Just dug up the user level code and it does apper to be largefile safe.
Created attachment 117655 [details] Proposed patch
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-37.1.EL).
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-2006-0144.html