Re: [edlug] BASH question

[Ben Soares <Ben.Soares@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Alas, I cannot run truss against bash as

truss: cannot trace set-id or unreadable object file: /usr/local/GNU/bin/bash

so I've asked root to do it instead.

Okay, my actual problem is that the "file1 -nt file2" (newer than) test 
operator is failing to give the right answer when set against two files 
bigger than 2Gb.  Also, filename expansion like "ls file[12]" also fails with 
"No such file or directory".  Is this likely to be because large file support 
is not compiled in? or is it a bug in bash?

Cheers,

Ben

On Wed, 15 January, 2003 15:51, Alex Stuart wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me a way to see if the bash that I'm using has
> > been compiled
> > with or without large file support enabled?  This is on Solaris 2.6.  The
> > bash is version 2.02.1(2)-release.
>
> Lee's answer regarding the use of fstat64 etc. sounds a good way of
> going about things. Whilst I don't have anything to check this out,
> wouldn't a binary compiled with large file support always use fstat64
> when stating files? If so, you could use truss on Sun (strace on linux,
> par on Irix) to see the function calls as you run, e.g.
> bash -c 'cat /tmp/foo > /dev/null'
>
> I guess this can prove the positive but not the negative.
>
> Alex
>
> > Ta,
> >
> > Ben
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