read() problem ?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 11:32 AM 3/9/2002, Nicolae Santean wrote:

>Is anybody aware of any issue related to the system
>call of read(filedescriptor, buffer, nbytes) under
>cygwin? The function is supposed to return 0 if EOF
>or # of bytes read otherwise. I get a 4GB read -
>clearly not correct (nbytes == 277).
>
>Appreciating,



As mentioned in the mailing list archives previously, Cygwin uses 32-bit
pointers.  So you're result is expected, given that.



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