Re: Bug with cat?

[Jim Meyering]

Bob Havlin <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have no filesize limits and yet commands like
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpfile bs=1024 count=3000000
>
> work fine.
>
> but the following fails..
>
> $ cat /dev/zero > tmpfile
>
> [1]  + Filesize limit exceeded       cat /dev/zero > tmpfile (core
> dumped)
>
> $ ls -l tmpfile
> -rw-r--r--    1 bob      users    2147483647 Aug  8 17:12 tmpfile
>
> GNU textutils 2.0.11
> RedHat Linux Kernel-2.4smp

Thanks for the report.
However, I can't reproduce that problem using cat from
textutils-2.0.14 on a 2.4.4 kernel and an ext2 file system.
I just ran this command

  $ cat /dev/zero > tmpfile

long enough to create a file of size 2.2G.