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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:18:36 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Markus Stumpf <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.4 - large file - seek problems
Message-ID:  <20000323171836.A59166@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000323232610.E11408@Space.Net>; from "Markus Stumpf" on Thu Mar 23 23:26:10 GMT 2000
References:  <20000323232610.E11408@Space.Net>

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In the last episode (Mar 23), Markus Stumpf said:
> This is FreeBSD 3.4
> 
> Hmmm ... I've thought files larger than 2 GB are supported since
> around 2.2.5.

Large files are supported yes.  It's up to the applications to
accomodate them though (by using fseeko() instead of fseek(), and off_t
instead of int for file positions).

> Now I have a logfile of a apache server that is
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root    wheel  2412880509 Mar 23 22:05 access.http.200003-01
> 
> If I do
>    $ less access.http.200003-01
>    Cannot seek to that file position
> if I do
>    $ tail access.http.200003-01
>    tail: access.http.200003-01: Invalid argument
> and then tail just starts outputting the file starting at the first line.

The tail bug has been reported as PR bin/14786, and it looks like
there's a patch in there.  See if it fixes your problem.  As for less,
you can contact the author and see if he can fix it; it's not a stock
FreeBSD program.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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