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, 7 Aug 2001 10:04:51 +0100 Message-ID: <6419-Tue07Aug2001100451+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Large File Handling - gcc 2.95.2-6 WinNT In-Reply-To: <20010806195435.B21578@redhat.com> References: <116B9AE9305AD211895E00805F655E51889AB1@sac-msg-01.medstat.com> <20010806195435.B21578@redhat.com> On Monday 6 Aug 01, Christopher Faylor writes: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:07:02PM -0400, Andy Henderson wrote: > >I have a c program compiled using -mno-cygwin running on WinNT and reading a > >16GB file. It starts to lose partial data on record 40904665 where the > >records are 105 in size and eventually dies taking NT with it. This looks to > >be a 4GB file size problem. The program has run on aix AIX using the > >function fopen64 but I could not find an equivalent in the gcc libraries. I > >am still using fopen. Are functions available for large file handling. > > No. As has been discussed in this mailing list within the last two weeks, > Cygwin does not support large files. > > And, to forestall the next inevitable question, we have no plans to add this > functionality. I guess this should go into the FAQ, then. David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/