Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040521211837.031fcda8@pop.theworld.com> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:28:45 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Bill C. Riemers" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: ftruncate64() question? In-Reply-To: References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040521150946.03262f68@pop.theworld.com> <20040521192359.GA6832@coe.bosbc.com> <20040521203759.GB7790@coe.bosbc.com> <00ba01c43f74$50560f30$64fda287@docbill002> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:06 PM 5/21/2004, you wrote: >On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bill C. Riemers wrote: > >> I am trying to write a program using cygwin that truncates files larger >> than 4GB to a specific size as part of its functionality. However, I >> cannot find a ftruncate64() in the cygwin libraries. Are there other >> alternatives available? > >What's wrong with ftruncate? > >How was the quoted text relevant? > AFAICS, it isn't. Looks like Bill decided to do the ol' "reply and edit to your liking" trick that associates two, disparate threads in the email archives into one. It's too bad too. Now he's ruined a perfectly good thread by shifting it to something on topic. ;-) But actually, we do frown on posts that usurp other threads this way. >:-( See, that's me frowning. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/