From: Travis Whitton <whitton@...>
Date: 2004-04-01T01:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange rubyzip behaviour (Errno::EFBIG)

I've distilled the problem down to the following lines of code.

travis@aop:~$ touch foo.txt
travis@aop:~$ cat crash.rb 
MAX_END_OF_CENTRAL_DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE_SIZE = 65536 + 18
name = "foo.txt"

File.open(name, "rb") do |f| 
  f.seek(-MAX_END_OF_CENTRAL_DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE_SIZE, IO::SEEK_END)
  f.read
end
travis@aop:~$ ruby crash.rb 
crash.rb:6:in `read': File too large - foo.txt (Errno::EFBIG)
        from crash.rb:6
        from crash.rb:4:in `open'
        from crash.rb:4