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Thanks for all your replies,
but it seems that its not possible to use posix read to read files larger than 2.1 gig.
This is according to the uberpenguin linus...

Of cause ext3 support larger than 2gig files on a 64bit platform

try
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=5145728

As you can see in the code I supplied

size_t bytes_expected = fsize(infile);
if ((data =(char *) malloc(bytes_expected)) == NULL)
err(EX_OSERR, "data malloc");
The problem is not related...

Hi the following c-code utilizing the 'read()' man 2 read method cant read in files larger that 2gig.
Hi I've found a strange problem on ubuntu64bit, that limits the data you are allowed to allocate...