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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:05:58 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   intro(2) manpage has wrong description of EFBIG?
Message-ID:  <20050218130558.GI37104@il.fontys.nl>

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Hey guys,

I was just reading the intro(2) manpage and saw the following description of
EFBIG:

| 27 EFBIG File too large.  The size of a file exceeded the maximum (about
|         2.1E9 bytes).

Which is 2 GB. As far as I know, FreeBSD is capable of dealing with files
larger than 2 GB.

Shouldn't this manpage be updated?

The same manpage on NetBSD 2.0 shows the following:

| 27 EFBIG File too large.  The size of a file exceeded the maximum.  (The
|         system-wide maximum file size is 2**63 bytes.  Each file system
|         may impose a lower limit for files contained within it).

Which seems to be correct.

Yours,
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 Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl>

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