From eed7fde46a7c97cd15428b560d0a91c36138ee71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:49:30 +0000
Subject: Filesystem quotas may stop you from using large files.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4167
---
 t/op/lfs.t | 21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 't/op/lfs.t')

diff --git a/t/op/lfs.t b/t/op/lfs.t
index ae6aac6079..af7853b270 100644
--- a/t/op/lfs.t
+++ b/t/op/lfs.t
@@ -29,13 +29,15 @@ sub explain {
     print <<EOM;
 #
 # If the lfs (large file support: large meaning larger than two gigabytes)
-# tests are skipped or fail, it may mean either that your process is not
-# allowed to write large files or that the file system you are running
-# the tests on doesn't support large files, or both.  You may also need
-# to reconfigure your kernel. (This is all very system-dependent.)
+# tests are skipped or fail, it may mean either that your process
+# (or process group) is not allowed to write large files (resource
+# limits) or that the file system you are running the tests on doesn't
+# let your user/group have large files (quota) or the filesystem simply
+# doesn't support large files.  You may even need to reconfigure your kernel.
+# (This is all very operating system and site-dependent.)
 #
 # Perl may still be able to support large files, once you have
-# such a process and such a (file) system.
+# such a process, enough quota, and such a (file) system.
 #
 EOM
 }
@@ -82,15 +84,22 @@ unless (@s == 13 &&
 # By now we better be sure that we do have sparse files:
 # if we are not, the following will hog 5 gigabytes of disk.  Ooops.
 
+$ENV{LC_ALL} = "C";
+
 open(BIG, ">big") or do { warn "open failed: $!\n"; bye };
 binmode BIG;
 seek(BIG, 5_000_000_000, $SEEK_SET);
+
 # Either the print or (more likely, thanks to buffering) the close will
 # fail if there are are filesize limitations (process or fs).
 my $print = print BIG "big";
 my $close = close BIG if $print;
 unless ($print && $close) {
-    $ENV{LC_ALL} = "C";
+    unless ($print) {
+        print "# print failed: $!\n"
+    } else {
+        print "# close failed: $!\n"
+    }
     if ($! =~/File too large/) {
 	print "1..0\n# writing past 2GB failed\n";
 	explain();
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