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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:31:22 -0400
From:      "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com>
To:        "Alex Zepeda" <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb
Message-ID:  <003c01c11afb$3cdc7980$0a2d2d0a@battleship>
References:  <00b201c11af3$4fef1c10$0a2d2d0a@battleship> <20010801184531.A7725@zippy.mybox.zip>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Zepeda" <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
To: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com>; <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
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.




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