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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: kern/147226: read(fd, buffer, len) returns -1 immediately, if
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The following reply was made to PR kern/147226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, eugene.kharitonov@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: kern/147226: read(fd, buffer, len) returns -1 immediately,  if
 len &gt;=2147483648
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 22:51:51 +0100

 According to read(2), EINVAL is returned if the nbytes parameter is
 more than INT_MAX; that is, it appears to specifically disallow reading
 more than 2GB in a single call.
 
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 Bruce