Timothy,

struct stat {
    /* ... */
    off_t     st_size;    /* total size, in bytes */
    /* ... */
};

off_t is a signed integer.

File offsets can be negative.

Peter

On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 8:27:21 PM UTC-4, Timothy Raymond wrote:
>
> I was working with filepath.Walk(), and I noticed something peculiar about 
> the os.FileInfo interface that the filepath.WalkFunc receives. According to 
> the definition here: https://golang.org/pkg/os/#FileInfo, the Size() 
> method returns an int64. Shouldn't this be a uint64? Is there a sane 
> instance on some platform of a negative file size?
>

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