On 2013-02-19, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:07PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> EOVERFLOW
> (stat()) path refers to a file whose size cannot be represented
> in the type off_t. This can occur when an application compiled
> on a 32-bit platform without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 calls stat()
> on a file whose size exceeds (1<<31)-1 bits.
>
> EOVERFLOW
> A value to be stored would overflow one of the members of the
> stat structure.
OK -- I must have an older version because the second paragraph
is completely missing here. But good to know that this at least
has been fixed.
First paragrph is from stat(2), second paragraph from stat(3p). It's
good to read POSIX pages to know what's portable.
Does your man page still include an example that casts st_ino to a
long?
Yes, stat(2) still shows:
printf("I-node number: %ld\n", (long) sb.st_ino);
which is ridiculous because types.h(0p) defines ino_t as unsigned.
-- Petr