Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:36:59 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Chirag Kantharia <chyrag@yahoo.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb Message-ID: <nospam-996734219.06661@maxim.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20010802115844.A29064@epigonaudio.com> of Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:58:44 %2B0530 References: <00b201c11af3$4fef1c10$0a2d2d0a@battleship> <3B68F264.BC1FEE21@mindspring.com> <20010802115844.A29064@epigonaudio.com>
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Chirag Kantharia wrote: | On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:25:40PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: | | Uh, st_size is an off_t, which is a signed 64 bit value, | | not an unsigned 32 bit vale... | | <going off-topic> why should it be `signed' 64 bit and not unsigned? So that things like lseek(2) can return -1 as an error value. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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