Re: [bug #15524] 2GB file size limit in fish

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, anonymous wrote:

> Follow-up Comment #1, bug #15524 (project mc):
>
> A patch has just been submitted to the debian BTS.

Leonard, please, do not commit patches blindly. This might be instructive:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/mc/src/filegui.c?root=mc&sortby=date&r2=1.56&r1=1.55&diff_format=u

The whole vfs thing is broken in regard off_t so it should be fixed - not
any single manifest of the bug. If you search this archive you'll see
similiar problem with tar archives.

I plan to fix this if noone beats me.