docs/79298: intro(2) man page has incorrect description of EFBIG

Ed Schouten ed at il.fontys.nl
Mon Mar 28 10:10:02 UTC 2005


>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 at 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.
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>Audit-Trail:
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