Re: Bug#106822: mmv does not work with files larger than 2GB
On Tue 31 Jul 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:11:30PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > mmv uses some stat() incarnation at some point, which files if a file
> > > is larger than 2 GB. The programs should probably be compiled with
> > > large file support on x86.
> >
> > i wonder why... is it checking the file size?
>
> No, I think it's checking if a name refers to a directory, a link, or
> a file, or something like that.
It may also need to copy the file(s) in question, so it definitely needs
to be "large file"-aware.
Paul Slootman
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