If scp/rcp handle large files improperly, because of (the lack of) compilation options, this seems like a bug to me. Report it at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ along with your findings. This is the best way to get a competent comment from Gentoo devs.
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 17:54 +0200, Radu Filip wrote: > How do I compile RCP with support for very large files? > > I have an Intel P4, with a Gentoo 2004.3 and with a 2.4.28-gentoo-r8 > kernel compiled with support for large files. When I use rcp to transfer a > large file (>3 GB) on a different machine I get a "file too large". > However, I can scp exactly the same file to the exactly the same other > machine, so I guess it is not a kernel issue. > > I was looking for a USE flag related to support for large files and I > found no one. `emerge -pv netmisc/netkit-rsh` shows only "pam" as a > possible flag. How can I compile netmisc/netkit-rsh with support for very > large files? > > How I can be sure that everything have support for large files? > > As a quick workaround, I copied over a scp binary from a RH 9 (and it > worked!), but I really hate to patch Gentoo this way in the future. > > Thanks > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
