[ILUG] Limits with file sizes??

John P. Looney jplooney-ilug at online.ie
Thu Feb 17 12:54:13 GMT 2000


On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:38:09PM +0000, Niall mentioned:
> Jeez J. give me a break - I know what it is - I'm wondering why it is !
> I've looked in the sources (not very intensively, I admit) and I can't see
> why a signed long is used.

 Does stat return size of -1 if it's an invalid file or something nasty ?
It's prolly an historic reason...

Kate





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