Re: find prints wrong file size for files >2GB

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:16:34AM +0100, Jacek Trzmiel wrote:
> 
> Win2kSP4+patches, cygwin1.dll 1.5.11, findutils 4.1.7-4
> 
> Test case below.
> 
> 
> $ cat >truncate.c <<EOF
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>    off_t size;
>    char *endptr = argv[2];
> 
>    if (argc != 3) {
>       fprintf(stderr, "usage: truncate path size\n");
>       exit(1);
>    }
> 
>    errno = 0;
>    size = strtoull(argv[2], &endptr, 10);
>    if (!endptr || endptr == argv[2] || *endptr || size < 0 ||
>        (size == 0 && errno)) {
>       fprintf(stderr, "truncate: invalid size\n");
>       exit(1);
>    }
>    printf("truncating %s to %lld bytes\n", argv[1], size);
> 
>    if (truncate(argv[1], size)) {
>       int saveerr = errno;
>       perror("truncate");
>       fprintf(stderr, "errno was %d\n", saveerr);
>       exit(1);
>    }
>    exit(0);
> }

Now wait a minute; that was *my* testcase!  Oh, well.
I hearby place that code in the public domain; retroactively for
Jacek Trzmiel's benefit.

Would a truncate.exe be welcome in one of the cygwin packages?  I
kind of thought there was one on some unixes but a search didn't
turn up anything.