[ale] OT: Perl and VERY large files

Fletch fletch at phydeaux.org
Thu Aug 7 09:43:38 EDT 2003


>>>>> "Me" == fletch  <fletch at phydeaux.org> writes:

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Rose <jojerose at mindspring.com> writes:

[...]

    Me> Erm, double check the error message, both the content and
    Me> what's really generating it.  I don't see that error message
    Me> in either perldoc perldiag (which has exteneded explanations
    Me> of every error or warning perl itself produces) or anything in
    Me> the 5.8.0 source tree.

D'oh.  Never mind me, that's the system error text for EOVERFLOW.
Shows how long it's been since I've touched Solaris. :/


Only other thing I can think of is to run truss and watch to make sure
it's calling the open64() syscall rather than the plain open() call.


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