Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:18:28 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities Message-ID: <20010220201828.E908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010220090609.N908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cbjones@nortelnetworks.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:55:18AM -0500 On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:55:18AM -0500, Christopher Jones wrote: > Corinna Vinschen 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? Sure. Contributions are welcome. Read http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html which describes how to contribute to Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple