I agree. But the file wasn't being changed between filesize tests. If I were on the otherside of this, I'd assume the user is an idiot and that they made a dumb user error. I may have, but I haven't found it yet. If I do find such a thing, I'll come back and note it just in case some other poor sap does the same dumb thing. Until then, it's a mystery to me.

Just FYI: My WinXP environment is running on VMware Server using a virtual hard disk (not hosted on a remote share or anything) hosted on a Linux server. I doubt that it affects this... and I certainly hope it doesn't. I'd rather hope I'm just an idiot and that I missed something obvious. Time will tell.


Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous — indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
- Richard Dawkins

In reply to Re^6: Filesize (-s) is consistenly reporting too small of size in Win32 by wilsond
in thread Filesize (-s) is consistenly reporting too small of size in Win32 by wilsond

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