Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] maximum file size

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:02:27 -0800
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:32:42AM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> From: Frank Strohbach [mailto:frank.strohbach@xxxxxx] 
> 
> | How large can be a capture file???
> 
> The maximum file size depends on the file system.

...and on the APIs being used to access the files.

The APIs Ethereal uses use a "long" as the file offset, which means that
files >2GB are supported only on platforms on which "long" is larger
than 32 bits - i.e., it'd work only if Ethereal's built as a 64-bit
application on a platform with 64-bit "long"s, even if the underlying OS
supports files >2GB.