DVD sizes
Jakub Jelinek
jakub at redhat.com
Mon Mar 29 20:34:43 UTC 2004
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.
Jakub
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