tag 405724 fixed-upstream
thanks
Hello Andre,
> open(2) (/usr/share/man/man2/open.2.gz) does not document the
> error EFBIG for open(). I get this error when trying to run lde on
> a 250-GB regular file :
>
> # dd bs=1 seek=250G count=1 if=/dev/zero of=bigfile
> # strace -o lde.strace lde bigfile
> # grep -w open lde.strace
> open("bigfile", O_RDWR) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
> open("bigfile", O_RDONLY) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
>
> Filesystem is XFS. Kernel is Linux 2.6.18.2 (ignore the sys info
> below, it relates to another machine).
Yes, I agree.
Currently, the relevant text is under EOVERFLOW, which is the POSIX.1
standard error for this case. But as you note, Linux actually delivers
EFBIG in this case.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7253
(I should have fixed the manual page at the same time as I made this report.)
I have rewritten the EOVERFLOW error text on this page:
EFBIG pathname refers to a regular file, too large to be
opened; see O_LARGEFILE above. (POSIX.1-2001 speci-
fies the error EOVERFLOW for this case.)
The change will appear in upstream 2.44.
Thanks for your report.
Cheers,
Michael
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