Based on Alexander Lamaison's patch, there's now a new

function called libssh2_sftp_tell64() that returns the 64 bit file offset,
as the existing libssh2_sftp_tell() only returns a size_t.

NEWS

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-Version 0.19 ( )
+Version 1.0 ( )
 -------------------------------
 
+- (Dec 20 2008) Based on Alexander Lamaison's patch, there's now a new
+  function called libssh2_sftp_tell64() that returns the 64 bit file offset,
+  as the existing libssh2_sftp_tell() only returns a size_t.
+
 - (Dec 18 2008) Markus Moeller fixed the issue also reported by Alexander
   Lamaison which caused SFTP reads with large buffers to fail.
 

docs/libssh2_sftp_tell.3

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: libssh2_sftp_tell.3,v 1.1 2007/06/14 16:33:38 jehousley Exp $
+.\" $Id: libssh2_sftp_tell.3,v 1.2 2008/12/22 12:46:45 bagder Exp $
 .\"
 .TH libssh2_sftp_tell 3 "1 Jun 2007" "libssh2 0.15" "libssh2 manual"
 .SH NAME
@@ -11,16 +11,12 @@ size_t
 libssh2_sftp_tell(LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *handle);
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-\fIhandle\fP - SFTP File Handle as returned by 
-.BR libssh2_sftp_open(3)
-
-Identify the current offset of the file handle's internal pointer. Note 
-that the SSH2 protocol does not have a notion of file pointers and that 
-libssh2 implements this using a localized file pointer which is updated 
-with each read/write call.
+\fIhandle\fP - SFTP File Handle as returned by \fBlibssh2_sftp_open(3)\fP.
 
+Returns the current offset of the file handle's internal pointer. Note that
+this is now deprecated. Use the newer \fBlibssh2_sftp_tell64(3)\fP instead!
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 Current offset from beginning of file in bytes.
-
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.BR libssh2_sftp_open(3)
+.BR libssh2_sftp_open(3),
+.BR libssh2_sftp_tell64(3)

docs/libssh2_sftp_tell64.3

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+.\" $Id: libssh2_sftp_tell64.3,v 1.1 2008/12/22 12:46:45 bagder Exp $
+.\"
+.TH libssh2_sftp_tell64 3 "22 Dec 2008" "libssh2 1.0" "libssh2 manual"
+.SH NAME
+libssh2_sftp_tell64 - get the current read/write position indicator for a file
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+#include <libssh2.h>
+#include <libssh2_sftp.h>
+
+libssh2_uint64_t
+libssh2_sftp_tell64(LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *handle);
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fIhandle\fP - SFTP File Handle as returned by \fBlibssh2_sftp_open(3)\fP
+
+Identify the current offset of the file handle's internal pointer.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+Current offset from beginning of file in bytes.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+Added in libssh2 1.0
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR libssh2_sftp_open(3),
+.BR libssh2_sftp_tell(3)

src/sftp.c

@@ -1560,6 +1560,15 @@ libssh2_sftp_tell(LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE * handle)
     return handle->u.file.offset;
 }
 
+/* {{{ libssh2_sftp_tell64
+ * Return the current read/write pointer's offset
+ */
+LIBSSH2_API libssh2_uint64_t
+libssh2_sftp_tell64(LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE * handle)
+{
+    return handle->u.file.offset;
+}
+
 /* }}} */