Support for largefile: stat() returns 32 bit value

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:05AM -0800, Craig Nelson wrote:
>Hi All, Just wondering if a future release will contain support for
>large files ie: size greater than 2GB..

There are no plans to do this, no.  As always, we are not adverse to
contributions, though.

>The stat() function call uses a "struct stat" (defined in stat.h).  This st_size field is declared as
>an off_t and sizeof() reports that is a 4 byte quantity.  As such, single files larger than 2GB show an
>invalid value for the st_size field.
>
>Is there a short term workaround for this?

Not that I know of, no.

cgf

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