Bug#106826: Mandate 64-bit file support for file utilities
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:
> Previously Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be nice if each general file management tool
> > (command line or text-based or graphical file manager)
> > supports 64 bit files (with 64 bit inode values or size
> > greater than 2 GB) even on 32 bit architectures?
>
> Sure. Just recompile them with glibc2.2
With the proper flags, I suppose?
> and you're done (provided they are coded correctly).
If I don't supply a -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 flag, nothing changes, and
I still get:
fstat: Value too large for defined data type
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