Bug#459399: vim does not see lage files and overwrites them as new on :wq

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Sat Feb 23 06:25:13 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:45:18AM +0100, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> I have a large xml file (12,7 GiB) which I wanted to open in vim to
> check some things before sending it to a parser we use.
> vim says
> 'file.xml' [New File]
> and shows an empty buffer.

This seems to be a more base issue than Vim.  Creating a large file (5
GB) and writing a very simple C program to open(2) and read(2) from it is
unable to read anything from the file.

James
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