gzip: input file size >= 4GB cannot be saved:
Inappropriate ioctl for device
The 'inappropriate ioctl' message is spurious (what errno
happened to
be). I have the following old local patch, which points out
the issue
(and changes to fix this in a different way than someone
else fixed
it). Look for this in gzip and comment out the maybe_warn.
I don't
know if this has been pulled up to netbsd-2.
Index: gzip.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.c,v
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -u -r1.79 gzip.c
--- gzip.c 22 Nov 2005 09:07:03 -0000 1.79
+++ gzip.c 22 Nov 2005 13:24:57 -0000
 -639,9
+639,15
(int)(in_tot >> 24) & 0xff);
if (i != 8)
maybe_err("snprintf");
-#if 0
- if (in_tot > 0xffffffff)
- maybe_warn("input file size >= 4GB cannot be
saved");
+#ifndef SMALL
+ if (in_tot > 0xffffffff && vflag)
+ /*
+ * RFC1952 specifies that ISIZE is modulo 2^32, so
+ * don't note this unless in verbose mode. (Note that
+ * amanda reports any such output, which is
+ * distracting and therefore harmful.)
+ */
+ warnx("input file size >= 4GB stored modulo
2^32");
#endif
if (write(out, outbufp, i) != i) {
maybe_warn("write");
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