error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl

abhishekv has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2017 at 11:26 UTC
On some platforms things are shipped without large file support, you should be able to see it listed in the output of `perl -V`, for example: `Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES HAVE_INTERP_INTERN MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF` [download] See also: http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.24.1/INSTALL#Large_file_support	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by Discipulus (Canon) on Feb 28, 2017 at 11:23 UTC
hello abhishekv This seems to me an OS error: has your OS the support for large data file (more than 2Gb)? see GNU coreutils-faq L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2017 at 11:50 UTC
Worth checking, but all the QNAP kit I've seen are NAS systems, I'd be surprised if they couldn't deal with large files.	[reply]
Re^3: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by Discipulus (Canon) on Feb 28, 2017 at 12:31 UTC
Infact the Perl `USE_LARGE_FILES` seems a better suggestion.. Googling the problem i found this post that say The issues described below were caused by a combination of bad RAM, a split-level that was one-folder too high in the tree and an unRAID disk that was around 90% full. so I guessed that even a nas system can spit out such errors. Here another example of `Value too large..` error on qnap L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 28, 2017 at 11:32 UTC
You've already got some good answers, I just wanted to point out that in `print "\nSuccess $!\n";` it doesn't make sense to show the value of $!, since as a general rule, it is only set on failure, and not cleared on success. `$ perl -wMstrict -le '$!=42; -e "/tmp" or die; print "<$!>"' <No message of desired type>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2017 at 16:24 UTC
If installing a new perl is not in the cards, what about a) try opening the file for reading b) put an eval around the -e	[reply]
Re^2: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2017 at 16:45 UTC
Ignore b, maybe try something like this: `use Errno; $! = 0; if (-e $file \|\| $! == Errno::EOVERFLOW) { # exists } else { # doesn't }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]