On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> I feel curl should do a bit better reporting the true size of huge files on
> platform that doesn't actually support storing >2GB files. E.g. take this
> example from a MSDOS/djgpp built curl:

...

> < 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for FC2-i386-DVD.iso (4370640896
> bytes).
> * Getting file with size: 2147483647

I can only agree with you. The code should make a (better) separation between
having a usable 64bit variable type and ability to store 64bit data.

But I think this current limitation hurts very few people in some rare edge
cases so it isn't something I'm gonna work very hard to correct myself.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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