Bug 34029 – diff and cmp has problems with big files

Bug 34029 - diff and cmp has problems with big files

Summary:	diff and cmp has problems with big files

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	diffutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
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Reported:	2001-03-30 02:50 EST by Erika Mustermann
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-03-30 02:54:30 EST
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Description Erika Mustermann 2001-03-30 02:50:23 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP32)


Using 'diff' or 'cmp' on files bigger than 2GB you receive the
error message: Value too large for defined data type

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile seek=2050 bs=1024k count=1
2. diff testfile /dev/null
  => Value too large for defined data type
3. cmp testfile /dev/null
  => Value too large for defined data type

	

Actual Results:  The errormessage 'Value too large for defined data type'.


Expected Results:  Obviously I would like to see the diff. :-)

At ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils-2.7.2.tar.gz is a fixed
version waiting since 1998 for it's usage.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-05-02 17:25:25 EDT

Fixed in diffutils-2.7.2-1.

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