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Date: | Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:30:34 -0500 |
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Brian Dessent wrote: > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: >>> AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. >>> DJ implemented that years ago. >> Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was "#if 0"'ed out, >> with a comment to the effect of "Nobody has any business seeking around in >> text files." > > FWIW, mingw's lseek() (which is actually Microsoft's, since mingw > targets MSVCRT.DLL) is horribly broken when seeking on a file opened in > text mode. But it's documented as such on MSDN, so at least there's > that. So there is some precedence for the concept that "this won't work > on windows platforms." > > But Cygwin's should work fine, and if it means saving a bazillion 1-byte > syscalls then I think bash should be patched to remove this sillyness > ASAP. I'll *emphatically* second the 'doing something about it'; I'm also cursed by really slow builds. (Assuming I understand what is going on, anyway :-)) -- Matthew Do not expose to hippos. Doing so may void your warranty. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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