A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Yes, yes, but before the division, will it be able to hold the file
size? (sorry, I meant st.st_size) Will mch_stat (at line 10134, one
line before the context of your patch) be able to return "huge" file
sizes?
mch_stat is variously defined, depending on o/s.
Under unix, that's the fstat function.
This function returns a pointer to a struct stat; the member in question
is: st_size.
(off_t st_size; /* total size, in bytes */)
So, st_size is an "off_t".
Under linux, an "off_t" is typedef __kernel_off_t off_t
So, I suspect that st_size will be sized by the o/s to handle whatever
size files it can handle.
Someone with a 64-bit machine, perhaps, could examine this further?
BTW, I'm also under the impression that "ls" itself uses fstat(), so its
not likely to be any
more informative.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
