On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:05AM -0800, Craig Nelson wrote:
>Hi All, Just wondering if a future release will contain support for
>large files ie: size greater than 2GB..
There are no plans to do this, no. As always, we are not adverse to
contributions, though.
>The stat() function call uses a "struct stat" (defined in stat.h). This st_size
>field is declared as
>an off_t and sizeof() reports that is a 4 byte quantity. As such, single files
>larger than 2GB show an
>invalid value for the st_size field.
>
>Is there a short term workaround for this?
Not that I know of, no.
cgf
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