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Re: File size error in ls
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Andrews Harold G Maj USAFA/DFCS <Harold dot Andrews at usafa dot af dot mil>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:04:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: File size error in ls
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Andrews Harold G Maj USAFA/DFCS wrote:
> All,
>
> I was a little surprised to see the following when I did an "ls -l".
>
> total 2368673
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Harold.A mkgroup 4071856 Jun 5 10:48 2001-fall.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Harold.A mkgroup 12910850 Jun 5 10:53 2002-fall.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Harold.A mkgroup 12568393 Jun 5 10:59 2002-spring.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Harold.A mkgroup 736583 Jun 5 10:56 2002-summer.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Harold.A mkgroup 18446744071809814777 Jun 5 11:26 2003-spring.tar.bz2
>
> I've got a large hard disk, but not that large. The actual file size of the
> last file is 2,395,230,457 bytes, as listed in Windows Explorer. The file
> resides on a SEAGATE ST336732LW SCSI (40GB) HDD connected to an LSI Logic
> 1030 Ultra320 SCSI Adapter. These are in turn installed in a Dell Precision
> 530 Workstation.
>
> I am using Cygwin on Windows XP and using NTFS as the file system. ls
> --version reveals:
>
> ls (fileutils) 4.1
> Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
>
> Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> I thought somebody out there should know.
> -Andy
stat() in Cygwin currently returns a 32-bit value for file size, so there
is no support for correctly processing files over 2G in size. This should
already be fixed in the recent snapshot of cygwin1.dll (actually, as soon
as ls is recompiled, IIUC). Try installing the snapshot with the
appropriate headers, compiling ls from source, and see if it helps.
Igor
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