Subject: Re: lseek past EOF doesn't append zeros under Windows 95
From: [email-masked] (Michael Hirmke)

20 Jun 1998 20:42:56 -0700
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Hi David,

[...]
>but under Windows 95 the cygwin32 package does not behave this
>way.  The gap is filled with garbage.  One package that depends
>on the zeroing behavior is db-1.86.  Here is a test program:

This is a well known misbehaviour of Windows 95.
AFAIK there is nothing at the moment, you can do about it.

[...]
>David Fox	   http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox		xoF divaD

Bye.
Michael.
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