Bug 39082 – stat can not handle files > 2 GB

Bug 39082 - stat can not handle files > 2 GB

Summary:	stat can not handle files > 2 GB

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	stat (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Reported:	2001-05-04 07:38 EDT by Andreas Helke
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-05-04 07:38:51 EDT
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Description Andreas Helke 2001-05-04 07:38:48 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.7 i686)

Description of problem:
If I run stat on a file > 2 GB I get back the following error message:
Bigtext: Value too large for defined data type

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 3 GB Textfile called Bigtext
2. stat Bigtext

	

Actual Results:  Bigtext: Value too large for defined data type

Expected Results:  Normal stat file informations

Additional info:

more and less don't work with these files and produce the same error
message

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2001-05-06 17:12:56 EDT

It's fixed in stat-2.4-1. You will find it in the rawhide .

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