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

Daniel Gerzo danger at rulez.sk
Mon Mar 28 21:00:16 UTC 2005


The following reply was made to PR docs/79298; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Gerzo <danger at rulez.sk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, ed at il.fontys.nl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/79298: intro(2) man page has incorrect description of EFBIG
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:04:16 +0200

 Hey freebsd-gnats-submit,
 
 --- intro.2.orig        Mon Mar 28 22:48:42 2005
 +++ intro.2     Mon Mar 28 22:53:26 2005
 @@ -215,10 +215,9 @@
  .Xr open 2
  call requested write access.
  .It Er 27 EFBIG Em "File too large" .
 -The size of a file exceeded the maximum (about
 -.if t 2\u\s-231\s+2\d
 -.if n 2.1E9
 -bytes).
 +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.)
  .It Er 28 ENOSPC Em "No space left on device" .
  A
  .Xr write 2  
 
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