Bug 42110 - File command fails on large files
Summary: File command fails on large files
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 27199
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: file
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-24 11:04 UTC by Jeremy Sanders
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-06-11 22:16:00 UTC
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Description Jeremy Sanders 2001-05-24 11:04:39 UTC
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Description of problem:
Creating a file large than 2GB, and then using the file command on it fails:

[creating temp.file from /dev/zero...]

[root@xpc1 jss]# ls -lH temp.file 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system       2.9G May 24 12:06 temp.file
[root@xpc1 jss]# file temp.file 
temp.file: can't stat `temp.file' (Value too large for defined data type).


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow procedure above
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Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-06-11 22:15:57 UTC
This bug seems to be the same as #27199
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27199

Comment 2 Jeremy Sanders 2001-06-12 08:45:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27199 ***


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