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

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Christopher Laux wrote:

>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?
>
>  
>
I can confirm this, and is basicly what prevents me from using sbcl on 
x86. It works on x86-64 and it also works on other 32-bit unixiods 
(freebsd etc) as far as I understand. If you can use cmucl, that also 
works with files > 2GB. When I asked on this mailinglist earlier I got 
one reply saying that it was "basicly a no-go", implying that it is 
probably relatively hard to fix this problem.

- Gisle