The following reply was made to PR kern/147226; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: =?UTF-8?B?0KXQsNGA0LjRgtC+0L3QvtCyINCV0LLQs9C10L3QuNC5?= <eugene.kharito...@gmail.com> To: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> Cc: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/147226: read(fd, buffer, len) returns -1 immediately, if len >=2147483648 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:19:46 +0400 To summarize: 1) `man 2 read` on my FreeBSD (64-bit) says that read accepts only len <= INT_MAX (it's my fault that I missed this before creating the issue); 2) `man 2 read` on my Linux system states that up to SSIZE_MAX must be accepted; 3) POSIX states the same as (2). In other words this behavior is correct from FreeBSD's point of view, but FreeBSD does not meet standards here. Did I get it correctly? PS. It sounds pretty strange (at least for me) that 64-bit system cannot read 2Gb at a time. Also, surprisingly read(fd, buff, size_t len) doesn't work with "size_t len" ( which is 8 bytes long ) greater than "INT_MAX" (which is 4 bytes long). Regards, Eugene _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"