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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2006-10-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h (ST_BLKSIZE): Ceiling at SIZE_MAX / 8 + 1, not at 4 + MiB, since XFS hosts can legitimately have large values of + st_blksize. Problem reported by Tony Ernst in + <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17903>. + 2006-10-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * src/remove.c (nonexistent_file_errno): Remove ENAMETOOLONG. diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h index 56636c735..29d170fd3 100644 --- a/src/system.h +++ b/src/system.h @@ -206,11 +206,14 @@ enum /* Some systems, like Sequents, return st_blksize of 0 on pipes. Also, when running `rsh hpux11-system cat any-file', cat would determine that the output stream had an st_blksize of 2147421096. - So here we arbitrarily limit the `optimal' block size to 4MB. - If anyone knows of a system for which the legitimate value for - st_blksize can exceed 4MB, please report it as a bug in this code. */ + Conversely st_blksize can be 2 GiB (or maybe even larger) with XFS + on 64-bit hosts. Somewhat arbitrarily, limit the `optimal' block + size to SIZE_MAX / 8 + 1. (Dividing SIZE_MAX by only 4 wouldn't + suffice, since "cat" sometimes multiplies the result by 4.) If + anyone knows of a system for which this limit is too small, please + report it as a bug in this code. */ # define ST_BLKSIZE(statbuf) ((0 < (statbuf).st_blksize \ - && (statbuf).st_blksize <= (1 << 22)) /* 4MB */ \ + && (statbuf).st_blksize <= SIZE_MAX / 8 + 1) \ ? (statbuf).st_blksize : DEV_BSIZE) # if defined hpux || defined __hpux__ || defined __hpux /* HP-UX counts st_blocks in 1024-byte units. |