Re: Max size for stream file APIs

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all!  I will give it a shot.



On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 6:06 PM Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> As the others have said, many of the old IFS APIs, including stat() use
> 32-bit integers and are therefore limited to 2GB or 4GB file sizes.
>
> Use stat64() instead, which uses 64-bit integers.
>
> If you don't have prototypes you can find them here:
>
> http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/copybooks/ifsio_h.rpgle.txt
>
>
> On 9/2/2020 2:10 PM, Brad Stone wrote:
> > Just curious if anyone has run into an issue with the max size a stream
> > file can be when working with it through RPG and the IFS APIs.
> >
> > I have someone with 25GB file and it's erroring out on the stat() call to
> > check for it's existance (I don't have the RC right now).  Also, EDTF
> > reports an error as well "Object is too large to process."
> >
> > Thanks.
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