Hello Emil, On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Emil Mikulic <emikulic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As seen on http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/stat.2.html: > > EOVERFLOW > (stat()) path refers to a file whose size cannot be > represented in the > type off_t. This can occur when an application compiled > on a 32-bit > platform without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 calls stat() on > a file whose > size exceeds (2<<31)-1 bits. > > I believe 2<<31 should read 1<<31 (which equals 2^31). > > I've tested this on an Ubuntu 10.04 system and the largest file I can > successfully stat [without the #define] is 2147483647 bytes. Thanks for the report. You are of course right, and I made the change you suggest for man-[ages-3.32. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
