Posted by Manuel Lemos on 06/30/05 07:24

Hello,

on 06/30/2005 01:02 AM Dan Goodes said the following:
> Hi Folks
>
> This 32-bit limitation is haunting me everywhere I turn.
>
> Is it possible with PHP (at compile-time if need be) to make it use large
> (64-bit) integers?
>
> I'm asking because I would like to perform operations on large files, and
>
> fillesize($filename)
>
> is returning an error, even when I use
>
> sprintf("%u", filesize($file))
>
> as per the manual for filesize(). I get:
>
> Warning: filesize(): Stat failed for FC4-i386-DVD.iso (errno=75 - Value too large for defined data type)
>
> Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions? Thanks!

No, PHP is not capable of handing files larger than 2GB. You want to
file a bug report because other program can handle large files in 32 bit OS.

http://bugs.php.net/

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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