On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Excellent! Thanks a bunch! -- 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
