ftp> get htdocs_050801.tar.gz local: htdocs_050801.tar.gz remote: htdocs_050801.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for htdocs_050801.tar.gz (2707419892 bytes). htdocs_050801.tar.gz: short write 426 Failure writing network stream. 2147483064 bytes received in 212 secs (9.9e+03 Kbytes/sec) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. prepare a file larger than 2GB on your favourite ftp server 2. GET it Actual Results: see Details Expected Results: complete fetch. Installed lftp as a substitute which had no problem.
if you put these into your CFLAGS does it work ? -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
Yes, confirmed, that does it. I would suggest to put these options to default for this package, since most of the environment around it (filesystems, vsftpd, lftp...) is already largefile-enabled, so this comes rather unexpected. Maik
added to ftp-0.17-r5
*** Bug 102441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 234599 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reopen as it seems that ftp-0.17-r6 and ftp-0.17-r7 have the same issue. See bug 234599
new bug -> new issue ... the reason for the breakage is different as things have changed
