[Starkit] FreeBSD core dumps when wrapping big files!

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

[jeff]
> I have no idea if this is coincidence, but 2^25 == 67108864.

Interesting.  That value is too close for comfort ;)

Also, try creating a starkit with compression off, i.e. add the "- 
nocomp" flag.

>> (As an aside: Does anyone know of an easy way to create a file of an
>> exact size?)
>
> Any random file?  Yes, open / seek / write 1 char / close works on  
> most
> systems.  However, this may leave you with a sparse file (depends  
> on fs), and
> I'm not sure if that will perturb your results.

Should be ok, sdx will simply read such files, i.e. as a bunch of  
zero's.

What baffles me is the FreeBSD-only nature of this problem.  Could we  
have a TclVFS stat struct mismatch?  There's that 32- vs. 64-bit  
struct field stuff which used to cause trouble in the (distant) past.

Just wondering, no way to tell whether it is of any value at this stage.

-jcw