Cygwin and >4GB file support

Kai-Uwe Rommel Rommel@ARS.de
Mon Jul 30 08:25:00 GMT 2001


cygwin@cygwin.com wrote on 30.07.01 17:19:39:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:05PM +0200, Kai-Uwe Rommel wrote:
> >[I sent this message already there about three weeks ago and never
> >received an answer. Please respond.]
> >
> >Are there plans to change Cygwin to support 64-bit file sizes in the
> >C runtime library?
> >
> >This would require changing off_t to "long long" and using the
> >appropriate Win32 API functions to support this.
> >
> >Kai Uwe Rommel
> 
> Your question was answered by Corinna on the same day that you sent it:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00594.html

Thanks. I did not receive anything at that time. Perhaps I was supposed
to subscribe to that list myself or she simply assumed that I did ...

Kai Uwe Rommel

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