Re: [Exim] Exim 4.30 bug in handling large error files on Li…

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.30 bug in handling large error files on Linux
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:44:18AM +1100, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> I encountered a problem with Exim 4.30's handling of large error files on
> Linux. I had Exim generating verbose logging information and managed to
> fill exim_mainlog to 2^31 bytes.


> At this point write() fails since Exim doesn't appear to open the mainlog
> with O_LARGEFILE under Linux (a reasonable assumption). However, very
> strange behaviour ensued.

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One of the reasons we compile exim with "-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE" on Debian. scnr.
              cu andreas