not an answer, but a means of reconciling - could you also do a qx(stat $_) and see how those values compare to perls built-in stat (or File::Stat 's over-ride)? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $file = $0; # how BIG am I ?
my $pstat_size = (stat($file))[7];
(my $qstat_size) = qx(stat $file) =~ m/Size: (-?\d+)/;

print "$pstat_size, $qstat_size\n"; # not that big

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output is 175, 175
I ran this against some 2G+ oracle dbf's, no problem

(code assumes *nix or MS system with a visible stat exe somewhere)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: File::stat's size method returns negative values by leriksen
in thread File::stat's size method returns negative values by djw

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