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On Mar 18 23:41, Yuri Gribov wrote:
> > No.  In my examples ./test.bin and
> > //this-machine/c\$/cygwin/home/corinna/test.bin refer to the same file,
> > //other-machine/c\$/cygwin/home/corinna/test.bin is a file on another
> > machine.
> 
> Hm, I'm out of clues then. These machines have very simple setups and
> I did not find any app from Cygwin BLODA list.
> 
> Do you think it makes sense to try the latest Cygwin? Mine is 2 months
> old but I don't expect basic IO to change that often...

No, it doesn't change that often.  1.7.9 is actually a year old,
though.  Updating *might* help.

Btw., assuming you call lseek(fileno(p), SEEK_CUR, 0) rather than
ftell(p), what position does it return?


Corinna

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