On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:18:08 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote
At 01:35 AM 2/9/2004, Jonathan Ultis wrote:
::exists is implemented using ::stat. The ::stat routine returns an error on file sizes larger than 2 gigs in libc-2.3.2, and several others. So, very large files never exists (). Using ::access seems to >fix the problem.
Good grief! Are you saying that ::stat() cannot be used at all because it fails for all uses when file sizes are larger than 2 gigs? ... That would be a disaster. ...
I don't mean to doubt your report, but it seems hard to believe that such a commonly used function could fail for large files. Is there more to the story?
Why? As I recall the history here, it has only been fairly recent that many operating systems would support files larger than 2 gig. AFAIK Microsoft's FAT filesystems are all limited to 2 gig file size limits. So it might be the case that the majority of filesystems currently in use still have this limit.... Jeff