Re: Trouble with the filesize limit

From: Steven Newbury
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 21:46:18 EST


Thanks for the quick response.

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:21, Eric Lammerts wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Steven Newbury wrote:
> > It isn't possible for me to download more than 2GiB.
>
> > I've tried programs d4x, wget etc., each of them have received a
> > SIGXFSZ and exited at 2GiB.
>
> Probably none of those apps were compiled with
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ...
>
Okay I've recompiled wget with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Now I've got:
get: progress.c:706: create_image: Assertion `insz <= dlsz' failed.
when I try to continue the download...

> > Strangely I am able to create much larger files with dd.
>
> That one probably is... (the coreutils configure script enables that
> automatically)
>
> Eric
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Steven Newbury <steven.newbury1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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