On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:24 AM peter green <plugw...@p10link.net> wrote:
>
> I got a report from a user about "openssl sha1 <filename>" not working for 
> large files on raspbian stretch.
>
> I investigated the problem and found that when I tried to use "openssl sha1 
> <filename>" for a large (>2GB) file on Debian armhf stretch or raspbian 
> stretch I get an error "Value too large for defined data type"
>
>
> What puzzles me is that it worked on raspbian buster, and also worked on 
> debian stretch i386. According to the user who reported it to me it  worked 
> on Raspbian jessie. Anyone have any clues? I'm not finding anything obvious 
> in the build logs or from a quick look at the source (it seems a couple of 
> source files are built with large file support and the rest are not, but 
> which files doesn't seem to have changed between stretch and buster).
>

Likely coming from the shell and not OpenSSL; see
https://serverfault.com/q/735636/145545.

Maybe coreutils changed something recently.

Jeff

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