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Re: [2.2.4] test-lfs: cannot write test string to large file
- To: Erik Heinz <erik at iks-jena dot de>
- Subject: Re: [2.2.4] test-lfs: cannot write test string to large file
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:54:34 +0200
- Cc: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- References: <20010912132743.A29913@iks-jena.de>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
Erik Heinz <erik@iks-jena.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> when compiling glibc-2.2.4 on Linux-2.2.19 with 2.95.3, 'make check'
> fails for me with:
> test-lfs: cannot write test string to large file: Invalid argument
>
> This in on an ext2 filesystem. glibc-2.2.3 didn't have this problem.
>
> Is this known? Any fixes available?
Ignore it, your kernel is buggy and returns a wrong value in one case.
Linux 2.4 does this correct - and handles large files also,
Andreas
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