Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:18:44 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Joseph Gleason <clash@tasam.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: filesizes greater than 4gb Message-ID: <20010802071844.A16931@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <002b01c11aee$21b9ae00$0a2d2d0a@battleship> References: <002b01c11aee$21b9ae00$0a2d2d0a@battleship>
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:57:36PM -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) No. st_size has type off_t which is a 64 bit signed integer in FreeBSD. Using stat(2) should work fine. You could also use ftello(3) to get the size. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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