From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264117AbUESIoa (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 04:44:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264119AbUESIo3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 04:44:29 -0400 Received: from anor.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.35]:58825 "EHLO anor.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264117AbUESIo1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 04:44:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:44:14 +0200 From: Jan Kasprzak To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sendfile -EOVERFLOW on AMD64 Message-ID: <20040519084414.GA18896@fi.muni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Muni-Spam-TestIP: 147.251.48.3 X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, today (after the Fedora Core 2 release) I have discovered that my FTP server (running AMD64) cannot correctly send the >2GB files using sendfile(). The server is ProFTPd, and the strace looks like this: [...] alarm(288) = 0 sendfile(14, 11, [139377240], 4231263656) = 2008106407 alarm(0) = 117 alarm(117) = 0 alarm(0) = 117 alarm(117) = 0 sendfile(14, 11, [2147483647], 2223157249) = -1 EOVERFLOW (Value too large for defined data type) The image (FC2-i386-DVD.iso) has 4370640896 bytes. The FTP server is native x86_64 binary, not a 32-bit one. Thanks for any hints. -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Czech Linux Homepage: http://www.linux.cz/ | Any compiler or language that likes to hide things like memory allocations behind your back just isn't a good choice for a kernel. --Linus Torvalds