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diff --git a/libbb/copy_file_chunk.c b/libbb/copy_file_chunk.c
index 90b6b82..e9663c3 100644
--- a/libbb/copy_file_chunk.c
+++ b/libbb/copy_file_chunk.c
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@
/*
* Copy chunksize bytes between two file descriptors
+ *
+ * unsigned long is used so that if -1 is passed as chunksize it will read as
+ * much as possible, and it will work with off_t or off64_t
*/
-extern int copy_file_chunk(FILE *src_file, FILE *dst_file, off_t chunksize)
+extern int copy_file_chunk(FILE *src_file, FILE *dst_file, unsigned long long chunksize)
{
off_t size, amount_written;
char buffer[BUFSIZ]; /* BUFSIZ is declared in stdio.h */