From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Perl reports a wrong Filesize when the File > 2 GB Try perl -e '@s=stat("/path/to/large/file"); print "size = $s[7]\n"' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. locate a File > 2 GB 2. Type in 3. perl -e '@s=stat("/path/to/large/file"); print "size = $s[7]\n"' Actual Results: nothing is reported... so Programms using this report a filesize 0. I actually deleted a file thinking it is empty Expected Results: Giving me the right Filesize Additional info:
Perl in RHL 7.x doesn't support files larger than 2gb because of binary compatibility issues.