GNU File Utilities
Christopher Jones
cbjones@nortelnetworks.com
Tue Feb 20 13:37:00 GMT 2001
Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> writes:
> 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.
Thanks, I was right. "change cygwin" == "modify the Cygwin API"
Brian
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