Re: stat64 et al.

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I'm just working on my stat utility to be able to cope with files > 2GB and
> filesystems > ?TB. While it is no big deal to use stat64() instead of stat()
> but I wonder if there are old system out there that do not have stat64()
> resp. statfs64() in their libc. I would prefer to not use lots of #ifdefs.
> On the other hand I have no idea when these functions were introduced.
> 
> I noticed that on sparc the struct statbuf64 is not the same as on i386.
> Some member variables are larger on sparc. Is there any protable way to
> output these variables?

Take a look at, e.g., the fileutils source. It's handled by autoconf in
the usual autoconf way.

-- 
Mike Stone