Why does rsync think my files are much bigger than they are ?

[Peter Skipworth]

Thanks - I'd compiled it myself with gcc 2.96 on a redhat 7.2 system, 
and tried reverting to the RedHat RPM and it works fine.Guess it's a 
compiler issue!

Cheers,

P


Wayne Davison wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:47:09PM +1000, Peter Skipworth wrote:
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>>send_files mapped /IFX/llog/logs.109051.gz of size 17592186044416
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>This line comes directly from this code:
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>rprintf(FINFO, "send_files mapped %s of size %.0f\n",
>	safe_fname(fname), (double)st.st_size);
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>The "st" variable is a structure that was populated by stat(), so the
>problem is either (1) stat() is returning bogus values, or (2) your
>compiler is not converting the value to a double properly.  I think the
>former is more likely -- e.g. if the size of the variables actually
>returned by stat() are not what the header files used for the
>compilation claim they should be.
>
>Did you compile rsync yourself?  If so, this is a basic compiler problem
>that should affect more programs than just rsync.  If not, you should
>try compiling your own version and running that.
>
>..wayne..
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