unlink and big files

[Ruben van Engelenburg]

Hi all,

I'm using unlink in a script to purge old backup files (tarballs).
Now perl returns an error when it tries to unlink one of those files:

"Value too large for defined data type"

The tarballs are pretty big; over 2 GB. Does this mean unlink doesn't
support large files like that? Is this a bug? And what can I do about it?

I'm using perl 5.6.0 on Linux.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Ruben.

 

[Ruben van Engelenburg]

A Google search will produce a ton of pages discussing this
issue. Here are just a few:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.1/1440.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2002-July/msg00442.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/2000-02/msg00108.html

Apparently it is not Perl related.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply. I'll go look somewhere else for an answer to
solve this, since it turns out to be not Perl related indeed.

Regards,
Ruben.