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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ftruncate64() question?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:13:31 +0200
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> From: Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 4:54 AM

> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:24:22PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
> >> What's wrong with ftruncate?
> >
> >ftruncate fails with files larger >= 2GB because off_t gets
> >interpreted as 32 bit signed integer...
>
>   bash-2.05b$ cat off_t.c
>   #include <sys/types.h>
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   int
>   main (int argc, char **argv)
>   {
>     printf ("sizeof(off_t) = %d\n", sizeof(off_t));
>     exit (0);
>   }
>
>   bash-2.05b$ ./off_t
>   sizeof(off_t) = 8

FWIW/WAG - without having seen the code:
 To me this looks as Bill's code must be wrong; resulting in a cast into a
32-bit signed value - or maybe using the wrong datatype for the off_t value.


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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