From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-03-13T23:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest.size > 2GB ?

Hi,

At Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:58:44 +0900,
Manuel Kasten wrote in [ruby-talk:183773]:
> I'm using "ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]" and I'm
> having problems with FileTest.size and files > 2GB. Seems it
> doesn't return a Bignum for them, but a (wrapped) Fixnum. For
> a 3GB File, thats a "size" of -1GB. Is there something I can
> do about it? Is there an alternative?

mswin32 version doesn't have large file support yet.

-- 
Nobu Nakada