[Vm-dev] Fwd: filesize reporting 0 for very large files

[Bert Freudenberg]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] filesize reporting 0 for very large files
> Date: 18. März 2012 21:31:05 MEZ
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> For the 32Bit  unix VM, 
> primitiveDirectoryLookup and primitiveFileSize doesn't work with files larger than 
> 2^32 bits. 
> Possible workaround/fix. 
> Build with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> and replace ftell,fseek in sqFilePluginBasicPrims with ftello,fseeko.
> Now reading filesize for files larger than 2^32 bits works, but I don't know if
> there are any side effects.
> 
> regards
> Nicolai
> 
>