Re: Compatible fstat()

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Parag Warudkar wrote:
> 
> On Nov 8, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Bob Copeland wrote:
> 
>> Isn't this just because the device size is > 2**32?  What if you  use 
>> fseeko(3)
>> and #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64?
>>
> 
> Yep. I got it to return the correct hard disk size (17Gb) using  lseek64 
> and
> #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
> 
> Here is what I did
> -------------------------------------------------
> #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>         int f;
>         off64_t off=0;
Why is this initialized?
>         f = open("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY );
>         if(f <= 0){
>                 perror("open");
>                 exit(0);
>         }
>         off = lseek64(f, 0, SEEK_SET);
Why do this? it always returns zero.
>         off = lseek64(f, 0, SEEK_END);
>         perror("llseek");
>         printf ("Size %lld\n", off);
>         close(f);
>         return 0;
> }
> 
RETURN VALUE
   Upon successful completion, lseek returns the resulting offset
   location as measured in bytes from the beginning of the  file.
   Otherwise,  a  value  of  (off_t)-1 is returned and errno is
   set to indicate the error.


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