diff -Nu linux-2.4/fs/exec.c linux-2.4_core/fs/exec.c
--- linux-2.4/fs/exec.cMon Mar 15 10:57:07 2004
+++ linux-2.4_core/fs/exec.c   Mon Mar 15 10:59:48 2004
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@
       goto fail;

       format_corename(corename, core_pattern, signr);
-      file = filp_open(corename, O_CREAT | 2 | O_NOFOLLOW, 0600);
+      file = filp_open(corename, O_CREAT | 2 | O_NOFOLLOW | O_LARGEFILE, 0600);
       if (IS_ERR(file))
       goto fail;
       inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;