DVD sizes

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 07:59:03 UTC 2004


On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:34:43PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:29:53PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > What do you want me to say?  I'm the mirror admin for mirror.hiwaay.net.
> > He is seeing something from my mirror that I do not see (either via
> > shell or FTP) and he's seeing it from another mirror as well.  The
> > logical assumption then is that there is a problem at his end.
> > 
> > However, from this I have (I think) discovered a bug in Apache.  I don't
> > serve the ISOs via HTTP (because Apache tends to do odd things with
> > large files).  However, if I go to that directory and get the generated
> > directory listing, it doesn't include the DVD.  I bet Apache is using 32
> > (or 31) bits for file sizes; at least it just skips the file it can't
> > handle (instead of crashing).
> 
> My guess is it stat/lstat's the file, which on 32-bit platform of course
> fails (stat64/lstat64 would succeed).
> Please file a bugzilla bug.

Please don't!  Current stable releases of Apache httpd can't use a
64-bit off_t on 32-bit platforms (except those BSDs where off_t is
natively 64-bit anyway), since doing so would change the binary module
interface.  This was fixed in the unstable 2.1 tree just a few days ago.

Regards,

joe





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