On Mar 11, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Phil Schaechter wrote:
Folks,
Does anyone know of a workaround for stat'ing large files on perl < 5.6.1 ?
For large files, stat and print -M both return nothing.
We cannot install any modules, or upgrade/recompile perl.
The problem is that you will need to build your perl with "USE_LARGE_FILES" for it to be able to look at files greater than the 2Gig limit. You will also have problems with the rest of the basic file test suite if the file in question is larger than the 2Gig limit.
There is no 'work around' for the problem - save the really dorky part that you know the file is 'there' and open up the directory block with 'opendir()' and do what you can with any information you can get from that, but even that is 'dicey' and not something that I have tested. I got bit by that problem a while back - and simply rebuilt the code with the "USE_LARGE_FILES" flag.
HTH.
ciao drieux
---
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
