smbclient and putting files larger than 4GB

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Mon Dec 30 05:57:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:04:33PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As a result of a complaint about the above topic I found a bug in 
> libsmb/clireadwrite.c that caused writes to an SMB server to corrupt files 
> larger than 4GB and ignore everthing above 4GB+a bit.
> 
> I have applied a patch to Samba 2.2.x and Samba-head. The patch has been 
> tested:
> 
>  1. It copes with files larger than 4GB
>  2. The data send to a Samba server matches the original data, byte for 
> byte.

This is the one that Herb published to the list, right ?
If it's not in 3.0 it needs to be there also.

Jeremy.



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