File size limit.

[Johan Wevers]

Clay B. Meyer wrote:

> I have been having some problems decrpting large files (over 4 gig).

This problem is probably due to a long overflow in fseek(FILE*, long, int).
There is no easy solution for that, except compiling both OS and Gnupg
anainst a libc that uses 64 (or higher) bit longs.

Linux is known to be unable to cope with > 2GB files (signed long), NT
seems to do better. I gues we'll have to wait for the Itanium processor.

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