cnfsstat on *large* buffers under FreeBSD ...

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> 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. :-/

Okay, so perl can't handle it...anyone do a C version of cnfsstat? *grin*


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