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Message #26 received at 21827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Brunnbauer <brunni <at> netestate.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 21827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21827: Large file support
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:35:59 +0100

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Hello Mike,

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:37:43PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 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 upgraded to glibc-2.22 on Oct 6 and had no problems with other tools and
big files so far (at least tar, gzip and cp do not seem to be affected).

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

My own. It runs on 60 servers. Unless glibc-2.23 is around the corner I will 
have to patch my current glibc.

Regards,

Michael Brunnbauer

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