On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:40:05PM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
Previously, filtering more than 2GB through an external filter (see
test) failed on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) with:
error: read from external filter cat failed
error: cannot feed the input to external filter cat
On 2013-08-17 14.40, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
Previously, filtering more than 2GB through an external filter (see
test) failed on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) with:
error: read from external filter cat failed
error: cannot feed the input to external filter cat
error: cat died of
Am 17.08.2013 14:40, schrieb Steffen Prohaska:
Previously, filtering more than 2GB through an external filter (see
test) failed on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) with:
error: read from external filter cat failed
error: cannot feed the input to external filter cat
error: cat died of
Hi,
Steffen Prohaska wrote:
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -139,6 +139,14 @@ ssize_t xread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len)
{
ssize_t nr;
while (1) {
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+ const size_t twoGB = (1l 31);
+ /* len = 2GB immediately fails on Mac OS X
On Aug 17, 2013, at 05:40, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
Previously, filtering more than 2GB through an external filter (see
test) failed on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) with:
error: read from external filter cat failed
error: cannot feed the input to external filter cat
error: cat died of
Kyle J. McKay wrote:
According to POSIX [1] for read:
If the value of nbyte is greater than {SSIZE_MAX}, the result is
implementation-defined.
Sure.
[...]
Since OS X still supports running 32-bit executables, and SSIZE_MAX is 2GB -
1 when running 32-bit it would seem the same limit has
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