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: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:51:45 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and >4GB file support Message-ID: <20010711125145.I8578@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Rommel@ARS.de on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:09:09AM +0200 On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:09:09AM +0200, Kai-Uwe Rommel wrote: > Are there plans to change Cygwin to support 64-bit file sizes in the > C runtime library? > > This would require changing off_t to "long long" and using the > appropriate Win32 API functions to support this. > > Kai Uwe Rommel There are no plans to do that. That wouldn't only require a change of off_t but many careful changes in Cygwin and newlib to not break backwards compatibility. Intermediate steps like off64_t stuff etc. are neccessary. No plans means: Nobody at RH is working on that or is scheduled to work on that or is planned to be scheduled to work on that at a later time. If people volunteer to add that (like people added that to Linux) we would of course support that. And help in our spare time. And be happy. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/