stat() does not work for me on Cygwin/Windows

[dissectcode2]

Does anyone know about this problem? I tried using the "old" _stat for Cygwin/Windows but that doesn't help.

The problem I am having is st_size is ALWAYS 16777216 for any file I am stat'ing and that value is incorrect anyway. Here is an example of the code:

char *filename = "C:\\Program Files\\Somedir\\medfile.txt";
int ret;
 
#if OS == LINUX
    struct  stat sbuf;
    ret = stat( filename, &sbuf );
#elif OS == CYGWIN
    struct _stat sbuf;
    ret = _stat( filename, &sbuf );
#endif
 
printf("ret : %d, sbuf.st_size: %dl \n\n", ret, sbuf.st_size);
 

result is :

0, 16777216


btw - using the FILE functions, I get the correct sizes; e.g.

sizeFile = (UINT32)ftell( fp );
 

but I don't want to open and close the file just to get the size.

helpppp

[weaknessforcats]

Your file should be:

char *filename = "C:\\Program\\Files\\Somedir\\medfile.txt";

I would just opne the file and do a seek to the end followed by a tell. That will give you the number of bytes in the file.

[dissectcode2]

There is a \\ between Program and Files? I tried the \\ in every other spot, and it is the same error (actually that is how I have it in my code, correctly)

[weaknessforcats]

There is no \\ between Program and files. It's a typo.

[BillyTKid]

try %ld in printf, not %dl