Re: [edlug] BASH question

[Michael F Gordon <Michael.Gordon@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

You could try running the program below to create a large file with a
hole at the start, then do "echo hello >> junk".  If the echo fails then
bash doesn't know about large files.  Compile with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64


#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(int argc,char **argv)
{
        int fd;

        fd=open("junk",O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE,0666);
        llseek(fd,34359738368LL,0);
        write(fd,"x",1);
        close(fd);

        return 0;
}

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