Re: large files not found with `read-file-name'

[Andreas Schwab]

Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com> writes:

|> One of the users here has a file thusly:
|> 
|>   -rw-rw-r--   1 tomw    bob   2399830016 Apr 11 11:41 sample.file

2399830016 > 2G

|> Which GNU ls does list in a dired properly, albeit the filenames are not
|> aligned etc.
|> 
|> But he has a emacs-lisp defun that prompts him for various input, one of 
|> which is the above "sample.file" filename.  The file completion does not 
find 
|> the file.  He is not trying to read the file itself, just get the filename 
and
|> then he runs a shell job with the inputs gained from his elisp...

This is because Emacs is not compiled with LFS support, so stat(2) fails
on that file (with ERANGE), and for Emacs it looks like the file does not
exist.  To fix that, Emacs needs to use stat64 instead.

Andreas.

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