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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:51:01 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ls bug
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> A proper solution would only be to make st_size (unsigned) long long, of
> course...

We can't do that, since st_size is declared off_t, which is a signed 
type.  We could make it long long, because even FAT32 doesn't will do 
with 32 bits, but we would lose binary compatibility and take a 
performance hit...

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