file too large

[Ketil Z. Malde]

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:

> if (!(filp->f_flags & O_LARGEFILE) && inode->i_size > MAX_NON_LFS)
>         return -EFBIG;

> What does strace(1) say it's doing?

It says

open("big_file", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)

So it sounds like this is right on the money. (Even if the comment you
included is wrong, this applies with O_RDONLY, too)

-kzm
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