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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:49:29 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: st_blocks incorrect for files larger than 2Gbytes
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Egor Duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>   newlib  declares  off_t  as signed long and cygwin's stat calculates
> st_blocks   as
> 
>   buf->st_blocks = (buf->st_size + S_BLKSIZE-1) / S_BLKSIZE;
> 
> i.e. for file with size 2.164.854.784 bytes stat returns st_blocks=-2080187
> or  big  positive value, when assigned to (unsigned long). this may be
> fixed in a)newlib or b)cygwin or c)application
> 
> which way is preferable?

SUSv2 defines an own type blkcnt_t for that purpose. This
might be the best way.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company