Re: struct stat

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:22:56PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> This is probably a FAQ, but why is st_size in struct stat off_t and not
> size_t? (How can a file's size be negative?)

To support files larger than 4GB, and allow filesystems to be shared
between different archs ?

size_t definition is MD (32/64-bits) ... while off_t is MI (64-bit).

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Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.