[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35361] stat/lstat fail on large file systems

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: stat/lstat fail on large file systems
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 24 Jan 2012 02:33:11 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Helmuth Eggers
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.2.4
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I have tried to use dir for a directory that is situated on a large (7TB) file
system mounted via NFS. dir fails, because stat fails with the message

warning: dir: `stat (VeryLongFileName)' failed: Value too large for defined
data type

This error message is related to inode numbers that exceed 32bit,
which can easily checked by the Linux stat command.

Hower, opening and reading files with the standard commands fopen, fread and
fclose will work normally.

I did not find any entry about this error in the ChangeLog up to
version 3.4.2




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