[Box Backup] problems with large files?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Gary,

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Gary wrote:

> Since NTFS will carry files over 2GB, any ideas on how to fix this once 
> and for all under Windows?

When compiling with Visual Studio, which doesn't supply a struct stat of 
its own, we can just change the emulated struct stat to use a 64-bit file 
size, and all will be well.

Unfortunately, MinGW does provide its own struct stat, with a 32-bit file 
size, and it's difficult to stop this from being included by other 
headers, so it's difficult to replace with our own structure. If I'm the 
only person compiling on MinGW, I can just hack the headers on my own 
machine. Alternatively, perhaps the MinGW license will allow me to include 
a hacked copy of their sys/stat.h in Box Backup.

Otherwise, we would have to replace all references to "struct stat" in the 
code. That would be quite a big job, and Ben and Martin might reasonably 
object to it.

Cheers, Chris.
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