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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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.

Corinna

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