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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A92FC1C.7FB5B4C8@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:22:04 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Jones CC: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities References: <20010220090609.N908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A92B762.8265E808@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Jones wrote: > > Earnie Boyd writes: > > > 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? > > > > > > > No, not right. You could possibly modify the Cygwin API to use 64 bit > > file routines but you can't use routines from a different runtime. > > Thanks, I was right. "change cygwin" == "modify the Cygwin API" > No, you said, "change cygwin" == "Use the posix C api for Windows". You can't do that, you have to create new api's for Cygwin. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple