Hello.
I tried to sendfile() a file which is larger than 4GB to a pipe (which is
the stdout of Apache's CGI program) using 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 kernel,
and noticed that sendfile() fails with EFBIG after 2GB is copied to stdout pipe.
I confirmed using 4.12.0-rc1 kernel that sendfile() still updates file position
of the file descriptor of the pipe. Since pipes are not lseek()able, I think that
sendfile() should not update file position if the file descriptor refers to
an non-lseek()able object.
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#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/sendfile.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int pipe_fd[2];
int fd = open("/etc/fstab", O_RDONLY);
char buffer[128] = { };
if (pipe(pipe_fd) || pipe_fd[1] != 5 ||
write(pipe_fd[1], buffer, 1) != 1 ||
splice(fd, NULL, pipe_fd[1], NULL, 2, 0) != 2 ||
sendfile(pipe_fd[1], fd, NULL, 4) != 4 || close(fd))
return 1;
write(1, buffer, read(open("/proc/self/fdinfo/5", O_RDONLY), buffer, sizeof(buffer)));
return 0;
}
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pos: 4
flags: 01
mnt_id: 12
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