File size limit exceeded - help

[McScruff]

hi i built a small programe in c to create a text file. this file will be huge but when it hits 2gb i get that error, i'm running dapper with ext3 filesystem.

here is my code (sorry for the no tabbing but it was ment to be a quick dirty app and i suck at codeing)

http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/18315

[simonn]

You have hit the limits for the standard C file functions on a 32 bit system. You need to use functions like fopen64 if you want to greater files sizes.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_file_support
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html