ls Mis-reporting size of large files

[Elfyn McBratney]

> For files greater than 2gb, ls is mis-reporting the size.
> ...
> cygwin's ls reports:
> -rw-rw-rw-    1 gmc     Administ 18446744071805532160 May  3 10:22
bigfile.tar
>
>
> What is that, some 18+ exabytes? I can only dream of a hard drive that big
:-)

Cygwin doesn't currently support files larger than ~2GB, although support
for large files is being worked on.

Elfyn


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