On Wednesday 09 of July 2003 06:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gregor Jackie wrote: > > jackie:/home/backups/EV1# split -b 4500m ev1.cpio.bz2 > > split: 4500m: invalid number of bytes > > Try `split --help' for more information. > > jackie:/home/backups/EV1# ls -lh ev1.cpio.bz2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 7.8G Jun 11 07:46 ev1.cpio.bz2 > > Thanks for the report. Without even looking at the code I am sure you > are overflowing the 32-bit long integer native on 32-bit systems. Do > you have access to a 64-bit machine? I am sorry, but i don't. Well, but still i can ask somebody that does to test it out. What i don't like, is first - that size is kept as signed int, since it does not make any sense to me. File size cannot be negative. And errors should be kept somewhere else, than in file size variable.
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