From 365b92575617c28c3cc53636ffe935e88d271b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:37:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention problems with files larger than 4GB on MS-Windows. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 4d4603b4be0..cb06ba7231f 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2161,6 +2161,11 @@ month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system library function. +Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a +32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as +well, since the Windows port uses a Lisp emulation of `ls' that relies +on `file-attributes'. + ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows. This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If -- 2.39.2