On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:26:11AM -0500, Beman Dawes wrote:
It looks to me as if stat::st_size's type of off_t isn't large enough on 32-bit systems to cope with large file sizes. Am I wrong, or missing something?
How big is the largest possible file on, say, Linux? Isn't it larger than the 2 gigs a 32-bit signed integer can represent?
I don't know whether there is a solution within any formally defined Unix or Posix standard. But according to http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html the Linux 2.4 kernel supports the Large File Support (LFS) interface. There is also a link to the LFS specification: http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file/x_open.20Mar96.html But I don't have any first hand knowledge how complete and stable the LFS support is and how it interacts with binaries that use the traditional interface. Regards Christoph -- http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/cludwig.html LiDIA: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/Welcome.html