Re: 1.3.15: "ls -l" integer overflow

Rares Boian wrote: However, "ls -lh" seems to be able to deal with that number and reports it correctly as 16-exabytes. ^ What?!? 16 exabytes?! That's what? 16 * 10^18? Are you joking? All the disks on earth wouldn't add up to that capacity. (Well, maybe they would in th

Re: 1.3.15: "ls -l" integer overflow

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:12:54AM -0500, Rares Boian wrote: >"ls -l" reports a huge number as file size for files larger than 2GB. Correct. Known problem. Searching the mailing list archives for "2GB" would have shown that pretty quickly. -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin ques

1.3.15: "ls -l" integer overflow

Hi everybody, "ls -l" reports a huge number as file size for files larger than 2GB. This looks like a 32-bit integer overflow. However, "ls -lh" seems to be able to deal with that number and reports it correctly as 16-exabytes. Also, the total size of the files listed is correct. It actually looks