On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:37:14PM +0200, Alexey Suslikov wrote:
> Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>
> > On 2009-03-10 at 14:34:30, you wrote:
> > >I want to set up the web server to share file, but i know apache-1.3.x
> > >(which is openbsd default httpd) had the 4G file size limit, can i
> > > break this limit?
> >
> > I don't know the correct answer to this question, but i thought of a
> > possible work-around in the event the answer is "no".
> >
> > Could you write a CGI program that serves the file? I don't know where
> > Apache's 4 GB limit is. But if the limitation is in how Apache accesses
> > the filesystem and not in how it manages network connections, then
> > maybe a program that is capable of reading large files could get around
> > the limit. This would most likely require mangling the URLs to the
> > large files to really point to the program, unless you can do some
>
> The limitation is 2Gb on 32-bit platforms because of off_t (man lseek).
>
> Stock ftpd also has mentioned limitation (try to REST a file beyond 2Gb
> offset).
>
> Using any 64-bit platform will solve the problem due to bigger off_t, but
> if it's not a case, one can use Apache 2.2.x from ports.
>
> Alexey
This is not correct. off_t is 64-bit on all platforms.
-Otto
