GNU File Utilities

[Christopher Jones]

Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:34:42AM +0100, Markus Hammele wrote:
> > Is it possible, that the file utilities can't display file sizes
> > bigger than 2 (4) GB. At least this is what happened here?
> 
> Yes. Cygwin is using 32 bit all around.

The posix C api for Windows defines a number of 64 bit file routines.
If someone wanted, they could change cygwin to use these, right?

Brian
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C. Brian Jones <cbjones@nortelnetworks.com>

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