Bug 56961 – tmpwatch can't handle large files

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Bug 56961 - tmpwatch can't handle large files

Summary:	tmpwatch can't handle large files

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

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

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Mike A. Harris
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2001-12-01 09:04 EST by Mike A. Harris
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-01-24 18:36:48 EST
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Description Mike A. Harris 2001-12-01 09:04:36 EST

Description of Problem:
tmpwatch blows up on 18Gb files

error: failed to lstat /tmp/plugtmp/terahertz4.tif: Value too large for
defined data type

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tmpwatch-2.7.1-1

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put an 18 gigabyte file in /tmp
2. run tmpwatch via cron
3. read root's email

Actual Results:
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 04:02:42 -0500
From: Cron Daemon <root@zod.capslock.lan>
To: root@zod.capslock.lan
Subject: Cron <root@zod> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
 
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch:
 
error: failed to lstat /tmp/plugtmp/terahertz4.tif: Value too large for
defined data type


Expected Results:
tmpwatch treating the file like any other file, and hopefully
removing that huge beast.

Additional Information:
No, I am not insane.  I do not usually have 18Gb files laying
around.  ;o)  Mozilla created this beast when trying to display
an 8Mb TIFF image.  It somehow went berzerk and my machine almost
had a kernel panic due to a shortage of DMA buffers for SCSI.
18Gb files are bad bad bad.  tmpwatch should delete them.  ;o)

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-01-24 18:36:42 EST

Wow, I've been reassigned my own bug report.  Fun.  ;o)

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-13 06:19:43 EDT

And finally I've gotten around to fixing it too.  ;o)

Added the following to CFLAGS

-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

Will appear in rawhide tmpwatch 2.8.3

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