cygwin-1.5.0-1: Problem stat-ing big file

[Markus Schönhaber]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:26:34PM +0200, Markus Sch?nhaber wrote:
> 
>>While trying if the new support for files larger than 2GB works, I 
>>created a file with a size of 4.53 GB (4,869,120,000 Bytes) using a 
>>simple write in python. No problems here. But when stat-ing the file 
>>with python's os.stat or by calling stat from C as done in the little 
>>program below, the size of the file gets reported as 574,152,704 Bytes.
> 
> 
> The changes to 64 bit file access are not propagated automatically to
> existing applications.  E.g. the current `ls' from the fileutils
> package is compiled with the old (small) stat structure which only
> has 32 bit off_t for the file size.  If you want to actually use the
> new struct stat and off_t with 64 bit, you have to recompile the
> application.
> 
> Sorry, but there's no way around that.

Thanks for the quick reply, Corinna.
I was playing around a bit with the new cygwin as this occurred to me 
and I just reported it. Could have come to the conclusion that it has to 
be this way by myself.

In fact this is not bothering me much, since  I - at the moment - have 
no need for being able to create and handle files that large. But it's 
good to know what had to be done if I had the need.

Regards
   mks





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