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stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?
- From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM at LearnQuick dot Com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:06:18 -0500
- Subject: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?
Is it likely that stat on a text file in cygwin would return
a .st_size large than the file size as used by cygwin
that is HIGHER than the physical number of characters once
the file is process character by character?
I am thinking \n: cr-lf vs. lf, and I am brand new to
cygwin programming (only trying to debug a problem in
Exim email servers new content scan feature.)
This buffer is being built for SpamAssassin which later
gives an error saying (to the effect)
"Content-Length mismatch: Expected 818 bytes, got 798 bytes"
My suspicion is that stat is counting cr-lf as two characters
but the input routines are treating these as one.
If the file has about 20 lines, then that's 20 missing
characters???
Herb Martin
HerbM@LearnQuick.Com http://LearnQuick.Com
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