ls -l gives wrong filesize for big files

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Nov 11 08:26:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:28:23PM +0100, Anders Gytri wrote:
> I have noticed that the "ls -l" command in cygwin 1.3.4release on
> windows NT 4.0 gives garbage in the file size field when a file is bigger
> than 2147483647 bytes (= 2^31 -1). I have not tried "ls" from the
> 1.3.5release yet.

New Cygwin version != new ls version.

Cygwin supports only 32 bit so far.  We have a lot of complaints but
nobody who actually wants to contribute 64bit file access.

Corinna

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