From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-03-29T02:19:20+09:00
Subject: Re: File.stat.size errors with file sizes over 2Gigs.

Hi,

At Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:44:20 +0900,
Martin Weber wrote in [ruby-talk:95833]:
> So what does windows itself use to offer access onto those large numbers ?
> Seems the stat compat (ms-w wasn't posix last time I looked, so I'll boldly
> assume it has no stat itself) needs to use another library call. After all
> it's possible to write apps in C, compiled with msvc, running on windows,
> which are able to properly report the filesize.

Unfortunately, it is not all of large file support.  Of course,
Windows provides methods to access large files in *their way*,
but not quite portable.

I hope this patch works.

  http://nokada.jin.gr.jp/ruby/win32/largefile.diff

-- 
Nobu Nakada