Getting error 79 (Value too large for defined data type) when trying to OPEN file in perl script on Solaris. When I originally got error, did some research and found I was hitting the 2GB limit and was using an old version of perl that was not built with largefile support... 

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Dec 22 1999 00:00:57
  @INC:
    /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
    /usr/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
    /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005

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So I tried using a newer version of perl... 

 Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags=''
    ccversion='WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2', gccversion='
+', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' '
    libpth=/usr/lib /lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -R /op
+t/perl/5.8.0/lib/sun4-solaris/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jan 14 2003 23:31:22
  @INC:
    /opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/sun4-solaris
    /opt/perl/5.8.0/lib
    /opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/sun4-solaris
    /opt/perl/5.8.0/lib
    /opt/perl/5.8.0/lib

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but I'm still getting the same error. Here is the truss output... 

brk(0x00052A50)                                 = 0
read(3, 0x000352EC, 8192)                       = 0
llseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                          = 17947
close(3)                                        = 0
getcontext(0xFFBEE970)
open("main.sort", O_RDONLY)                     Err#79 EOVERFLOW
Cannot open main feed file main.sort at john.pl line 306.
write(2, " C a n n o t   o p e n  ".., 58)      = 58
getcontext(0xFFBEE6A8)
setcontext(0xFFBEE6A8)
getcontext(0xFFBEE910)
llseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR)                          = 1798918
_exit(79)

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Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.

In reply to Problem opening large file by jrich

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