I agree that ideally this should be fixed upstream. Nevertheless this has not happened yet (additionally today I tried to contact the author but his mail is bouncing...)
On the other hand, the patch by Tim Potter is so extremely simple; it will not break anything now nor in the future -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675920 Title: failure accessing large file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/httpfs2/+bug/675920/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
