Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Wei Weng wrote:
>
>> If you try to download a large file (bigger than 2GB) on Linux using
>> CURL binary compiled with no special flags (during ./configure), it
>> will give you a "File size limit exceeded" error when exactly 2GB file
>> size is reached.
>
>
> It doesn't for me and for many other people.
>
> Who would say such a thing? libcurl has no string like nor does it have
> any check for maximum file size, it would instead fail to parse the
> number when used.
>
> What Linux version is this? What target file system do you store the
> download on?
>
hmm, come to think about that, I think I am probably wrong on that. I stored
the large file on a FAT32 partition via Samba. I think that error is
probably spilled out by the Samba.

Sorry about that. :)

Wei
Received on 2004-11-22