[Sbcl-help] 2 GB file size limit on x86/linux?

[Christopher L. <chr...@we...>]

Hello,

I've just encountered what seems to be a 2 GB file size limit on SBCL 
x86/linux, that doesn't appear on x86-64/linux. I can't find a word 
about it in the documentation or newsgroups. Opening a file larger than 
2 GB fails (snippet below) and writing past the limit leads to instant 
death! The FS is Reiser, which doesn't otherwise have any problems with 
large files. Inspecting the code in code/fd-stream.lisp, it looks as if 
Linux is reporting the file non-existant - could it be that a deprecated 
interface is used or something like that?

Can anyone confirm this or is there even a patch available?

Cheers,

Chris


chris@suse100lamp:~> ls -l
...
-rw-r--r--   1 chris users 2097152000 2006-09-07 10:40 test1.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 chris users 4244635647 2006-09-07 10:00 test2.dat
...



* (open "test1.dat")

#<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /home/chris/test1.dat" {49E73A09}>
* (close *)

T
* (open "test2.dat")

debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD 
"initial thread" {4A237091}>:
   error opening #P"/home/chris/test2.dat": Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht 
gefunden

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
   0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-FILE-PERROR "error opening ~S" #P"/home/chris/test2.dat" 2)
0] backtrace

0: (SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-FILE-PERROR "error opening ~S" 
#P"/home/chris/test2.dat" 2)
1: (OPEN "test2.dat")