From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T00:49:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Patches-7760 ] Fix for File and File::Stat to deal withbogus stat.st_size member

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hugh Sasse [mailto:hgs@dmu.ac.uk] 
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 3:40 AM
> > To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> > Subject: Re: [ ruby-Patches-7760 ] Fix for File and 
> > File::Stat to deal withbogus stat.st_size member
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, noreply@rubyforge.org wrote:
> > 
> > > irb(main):001:0> File.stat("/dev/fd0").size
> > > => 9223372036854775807
> > > 
> > > That should return 0. This has been reported on 
> > sunsolve.sun.com (bug 
> > > 4013608), but I'm not positive if it's been patched yet, or
> > 
> > That bug seems to relate to Sunos 4.1.4 as far as I can see.
> 
> Heh, oops.  So...it's been that way for a long time apparently. ;)

But it claims to have been patched.  I can't find data on this for
the new versions....
> 
> Do you have access to any older versions of Solaris to see if they
> suffer the same result?

No, nothing older than 2.5.1, and I can't build ruby on that machine
(too small, not enough tools).  I think I stopped using SunOS 4 ages
ago now.  What are you trying to build this on?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
        Hugh