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Re: 1.3.15: "ls -l" integer overflow
- From: Shankar Unni <shankar at cotagesoft dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:02:57 -0800
- Subject: Re: 1.3.15: "ls -l" integer overflow
- References: <20021108051247.GA1904@caip.rutgers.edu>
Rares Boian wrote:
However, "ls -lh" seems to be able to deal with that number and
reports it correctly as 16-exabytes.
^^^^^^^^^
What?!? 16 exabytes?! That's what? 16 * 10^18? Are you joking? All the
disks on earth wouldn't add up to that capacity. (Well, maybe they would
in these days of cheap 100GB disks, but it's a close thing :-).
It's simply reporting the 18446744072770031616 number in a compact
format. The internal *value* is wrong, because it's doing an incorrect
32->64 bit conversion somewhere, but the format doesn't make the result
correct.
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