GNU File Utilities

[Earnie Boyd]

Christopher Jones wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

No, not right.  You could possibly modify the Cygwin API to use 64 bit
file routines but you can't use routines from a different runtime.

Earnie.

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