On Apr 14, 2003 16:03 +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Some time ago I was annoyed to see that ghostscript didn't support large
> files (>2G) and, although the fix to gs(1) was trivial it was very
> undesirable to have to recompile it (for lots of reasons like mismatch
> between the source set and fonts, libraries etc). So the only (efficient)
> solution in my case would have been to "modify" the behaviour of the gs
> binary without rebuilding it. One way is to use LD_PRELOAD feature but I
> found it easier to just knock up a simple kernel module olarge.o to do the
> job.
I don't see how this helps you very much. So now, instead of the kernel
complaining with EFBIG and/or SIGXFSZ, your 32-bit size offset wraps in
the application.
Cheers, Andreas
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