Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:08:43 GMT From: Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/79298: intro(2) man page has incorrect description of EFBIG Message-ID: <200503281008.j2SA8hU7006414@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200503281010.j2SAA154022912@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 79298
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: intro(2) man page has incorrect description of EFBIG
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 28 10:10:01 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ed Schouten
>Release: 5.4-PRERELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD flierp.fxq.nl 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Mar 25 16:09:01 UTC 2005 root@flierp.fxq.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FLIERP i386
>Description:
The intro(2) man page has the following description of EFBIG:
27 EFBIG File too large. The size of a file exceeded the maximum (about 2.1E9 bytes).
which is incorrect. 2.1*10^9 bytes (2 GiB), isn't the maximum file size in the FreeBSD Operating System.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ man 2 intro
>Fix:
NetBSD and OpenBSD state the following in their man page:
27 EFBIG File too large. The size of a file exceeded the maximum. (The system-wide maximum file size is 2**63 bytes. Each file system may impose a lower limit for files contained within it.)
This description is valid.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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