cnfsstat on *large* buffers under FreeBSD ...

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

The Hermit Hacker:
> syscall read(0x4,0x8112000,0x2000)
>         errno 27 'File too large'
> has anyone seen this, or have any ideas on how it can be fixed?
> 
Perl doesn't support longlongs natively yet, hence no 64 bit integers,
hence no large-file support.

Teaching Perl's seek() code about bigint seems to be a somewhat nontrivial
endeavour. :-/

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