Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/07/10/07:50:33
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the quick reply, Corinna.
I was playing around a bit with the new cygwin as this occurred to me
and I just reported it. Could have come to the conclusion that it has to
be this way by myself.
In fact this is not bothering me much, since I - at the moment - have
no need for being able to create and handle files that large. But it's
good to know what had to be done if I had the need.
Regards
mks
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