+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #165006 +++ 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.
Created attachment 117752 [details] Proposed patch
The changes are as Ernie has suggested.
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-2006-0132.html