>Number:         20818
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       split can not handle large split sizes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 20 04:57:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6P
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
System: NetBSD beasty.aprisoft.de 1.6P NetBSD 1.6P (BEASTY) #0: Thu Mar 13 08:47:33 CET 2003 martin@beasty.aprisoft.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BEASTY i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

I was trying to split a 11GB tar archive into pieces for easier transport.
This failed unless the pieces were smaller than 2 GB.

>How-To-Repeat:

[/tmp] martin@beasty > split -b 2048m /dev/zero test
split: write: Invalid argument
[/tmp] martin@beasty > split -b 2047m /dev/zero test
(watch it work and ^C at will)

>Fix:
n/a
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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