Subject: Re: bug#21827: Large file support

From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 22:37:43 -0500

On 05 Nov 2015 15:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/04/2015 05:07 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> > Any ideas what could be going wrong?
> 
> It appears you've run afoul of glibc bug#18781.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18781
> 
> Yeowch.  If I'm right, that's a serious glibc bug that will break a lot 
> of programs, not just grep.  I don't offhand see a way to work around it 
> easily on Gnulib.
> 
> The bug was introduced on 2015-06-04 and fixed on 2015-08-10 in glibc.

we should be able to ping most of the distros about it though and make sure
it's included ?  i cherry picked it into Gentoo a while back while merging
updates from the 2.22 branch.

Michael: i don't think you said ... which distro are you using ?
-mike