From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:41:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention problems with files larger than 4GB on MS-Windows.
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Mention problems with files larger than 4GB on MS-Windows.
---

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