"File size limit exceeded" problem in Red Hat 8

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:31, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 12:55, Jake Brown wrote:
> > Ed,
> >  
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >  
> > I tried # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/point/foo.big bs=1024k count=3000  , and I got 
> > 
> > /mnt/point/foo.big  no such file or directory.
> >  
> > My filing system is ext3.
> >  
> > I am using gcc 2.6.3 to generate the trace file, I know that gcc 2.6.3 is a very very old version, however the simulator I have in hand requires that specific version of gcc. It is possible that file manipulation functions, like fopen, fseek etc., in gcc 2.6.3 do not support file sizes greater than 2 GB. Is there a way to work it around? For example, can I compress the trace file on the fly? The syntax I am using to generate a trace file is
> >  
> > ./Application_name -- -tx trace.txt
> >  
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I believe it is the system call definitions you are using and not the
> compiler. If you look in /usr/include/features.h you may see things like
> 
> __USE_LARGEFILE64
> __USE_FILE_OFFSET64
> 
> These defines determine the internal format of the system calls you are
> using in your program. And I believe you may have to use fopen64 rather
> than fopen.

Sorry, that wasn't entirely helpful. You need these flags in your
makefile:

-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>