Bug#489917: jed: Opening a file fails with 'File XXX not readable.' on a large filesystem

[Jörg Sommer]

Hi Alter,

Alter Ego schrieb am Tue 08. Jul, 20:27 (+0300):
> Package: jed
> Version: 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-10+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Opening a file fails with 'File XXX not readable.' on a large filesystem
> (tested on 16TB XFS filesystems using inode64).
> 
> unix.c/sys_chmod() returns -3 to file.c/file_status() with error "Value
> too large for defined data type".
> Compiling sys_chmod() with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 stops it from happening.

Can you try if the same problem is present in the S‐Lang library? Can you
install the package slsh and execute slsh. Then run

slsh> chmod("/file", 0644); errno_string(errno);

What's the output?

Thank's for your help.

Bye, Jörg.
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