Hello Mike, On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 07:25:28PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i checked over here and it looks fine to me. can you attach your config.log ? Attached. > also, try running it through strace and see what it looks like. something like: > $ strace -e '!read' grep ... > > you should see calls like: > openat(AT_FDCWD, "...", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 The O_LARGEFILE is missing on the grepped file but present for other calls that seem internal to glibc: [...] open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9805360, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7338000 close(3) = 0 brk(0) = 0x806d000 brk(0x808e000) = 0x808e000 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(3, 1), ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56095, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb771a000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb771a000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=23476, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 12328, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7717000 mmap2(0xb7719000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xb7719000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0xb7719000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 openat(AT_FDCWD, "todelete.txt", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = -1 EOVERFLOW (Value too large for defined data type) write(2, "./grep: "..., 8./grep: ) = 8 write(2, "todelete.txt"..., 12todelete.txt) = 12 write(2, ": Value too large for defined dat"..., 39: Value too large for defined data type) = 39 write(2, "\n"..., 1 ) = 1 close(1) = 0 close(2) = 0 exit_group(2) = ? Regards, Michael Brunnbauer -- ++ Michael Brunnbauer ++ netEstate GmbH ++ Geisenhausener Straße 11a ++ 81379 München ++ Tel +49 89 32 19 77 80 ++ Fax +49 89 32 19 77 89 ++ E-Mail brunni@netestate.de ++ http://www.netestate.de/ ++ ++ Sitz: München, HRB Nr.142452 (Handelsregister B München) ++ USt-IdNr. DE221033342 ++ Geschäftsführer: Michael Brunnbauer, Franz Brunnbauer ++ Prokurist: Dipl. Kfm. (Univ.) Markus Hendel