Bug 39082 - stat can not handle files > 2 GB
Summary: stat can not handle files > 2 GB
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: stat   
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Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Preston Brown
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Reported: 2001-05-04 11:38 UTC by Andreas Helke
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-04 11:38:51 UTC
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Description Andreas Helke 2001-05-04 11:38:48 UTC 
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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 21:12:56 UTC 
It's fixed in stat-2.4-1. You will find it in the rawhide .
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