I missed an item in the first post. Debian Linux OS(sarge) I have a program when assigning a value directly as below the value 3000000 is maintained but I am getting rather odd results when using the commented out portion lstat and I get a negative number :) it seems to think all inode output is below the 2billion number but if using printf with a long specification the number comes out correctly. Problem is on a MySQL database insert (into unsigned int) the negative value causes the inode insert to become zero. Can anyone confirm this lstat behaviour? or point me toward another direction that might help me solve the problem.
******start code Sample*****
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use DBI;

my $fqfn = '/home/daveb/temp.txt';

#my @stats = lstat $fqfn;
my @stats = (-1000, 3000000000, -22345);

my($dev, $ino, $garbage) = @stats;

print "$dev\n$ino\n$garbage\n";

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In reply to lstat for large inode values over 3billion by cybersekkin

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