scp doesn't work with large (>2GB) files

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

I'm unsure if anything needs to be done on Solaris (since I've yet to have
a chance to test due to US and personal issues..), but I will be doing the
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 solution for Linux if no one in the portable group
has a problem.

I refuse to touch O_LARGEFILE directly.  Since it cannot work for sftp
since it actively uses lseek().

- Ben

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> > Part of the reason it was done this way is to help transition from the
> > old 32bit off_t to a 64bit off_t and to provide access to largefiles
> > from 32bit applications.
>
> Still, it is ridiculous.  It is a strong reversal from the unification
> efforts of POSIX.
>
> Sun should have looked at kernel-supported emulation environments for
> better handling of this.
>
> Doing so has worked VERY WELL for us.
>
> > Passing O_LARGEFILE to open(2) without any other changes is the wrong
> > way to do it and may cause problems with code that doesn't check all
> > return values for functions that manipulate files and file offsets.
>
> OK.  So people are saying that patch is bogus.  Not surprising, I
> suppose: Markus gets mailed lots of bogus patches.
>