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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:34:52PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:30:08PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > Using O_LARGEFILE is probably the least worst solution to this problem on
> > Linux at least. 
> 
> i still don't see how a flag to open(2) can help if off_t is 32 bit?

Perhaps the idea was to make sure that only programs compiled with off_t
being 64 bits could open large files.

Think, if an old program opened a large file and read sequencially past
2GB then tried to find the current offset then all hell would break
loose -- thus the requirement that a new open flag or new open syscall
be used might merely be meant prevent older programs from such
situations.

Solaris, in fact, has an open64() and the headers take care of doing
something like:

#define open open64

I bet that open64() internally sets O_LARGEFILE automatically so that
OpenSSH should need no source changes other than defining some
pre-processor constant to enable open64() et. al., on Solaris.

I can't say about Linux...

Nico
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