Re: Compatible fstat()

[Bob Copeland]

> > Yeah I corrected that before trying but still didn't work on Debian
> > (2.6.8 kernel)...
> > Running root, open successful but size is always zero - Strange..
> >
> > Parag
>
> Also found that the returned value was -1 and errno was EOVERFLOW.
> So, that doesn't work either!

Isn't this just because the device size is > 2**32?  What if you use fseeko(3)
and #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64?

Okay, still not portable and there is probably a better way that doesn't rely
on such nonsense.  For example, since you have a minimum size in mind,
just seek that much and see if it works - you don't really need to know the
whole disk size for that.  Or figure out the best way on all of your platforms
and abstract it.

-Bob
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