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Clay B. Meyer wrote:

> I have been having some problems decrpting large files (over 4 gig).

This problem is probably due to a long overflow in fseek(FILE*, long, int).
There is no easy solution for that, except compiling both OS and Gnupg
anainst a libc that uses 64 (or higher) bit longs.

Linux is known to be unable to cope with > 2GB files (signed long), NT
seems to do better. I gues we'll have to wait for the Itanium processor.

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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:16:56PM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote:
>
> Linux is known to be unable to cope with > 2GB files (signed long), NT
> seems to do better. I gues we'll have to wait for the Itanium processor.
>

I think that we should only wait for linux 2.4.0 and new glibc...

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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Clay B. Meyer wrote:

> I have been having some problems decrpting large files (over 4 gig). Is there
> any know file size limit? What might affect this?

We can make GnuPG process files >2G simply by using the open64
function. To allow piping data to or from gpg you need a shell which
can also handle this (i.e. uses open64). GnuPG does not use lseek
so this is not a problem.

Werner

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