Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

[Greg Black]

Chirag Kantharia wrote:

| On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:25:40PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
| | Uh, st_size is an off_t, which is a signed 64 bit value,
| | not an unsigned 32 bit vale...
| 
| <going off-topic> why should it be `signed' 64 bit and not unsigned?

So that things like lseek(2) can return -1 as an error value.

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