Joseph Gleason wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Zepeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 21:45
> Subject: Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb
>
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:34:43PM -0400, Joseph Gleason wrote:
> >
> > > In FreeBSD, how can I determine the size of a file in C++ when the file
> is
> > > greater than 4gb?
> > >
> > > Currently, I use stat() and use st_size. That is limited to 4gb (32bit
> > > unsigned int)
> >
> > You're wrong. Read the man page. No soup for you! Next!
> >
> > - alex
>
> Alright, I made a mistake. But I did read the man page. Where does it say
> off_t is 64bits?
>
> My mistake was not digging through the include files enough to see what was
> going on.
I think you got him on that, but [cut and paste of two consecutive lines from the
manpage]...
off_t st_size; /* file size, in bytes */
int64_t st_blocks; /* blocks allocated for file */
If the manpage specifies int64_t for the blocks, even though off_t isn't specified in
the manpage, what does it lead you to assume?
Although 64-bit file sizes have been part of FreeBSD since 2.0-RELEASE back in 1994
[as I recall], maybe the manpages should reflect
this fact by means other than the deductive reasoning outlined above. Joseph has made
a good point.
jim
--
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He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos!
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