From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: lseek past EOF doesn't append zeros under Windows 95
9 Jul 1998 14:19:21 -0700
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To: Michael Hirmke <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 05:29:00PM +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
> [...]
> >but under Windows 95 the cygwin32 package does not behave this
> >way.  The gap is filled with garbage.  One package that depends
> >on the zeroing behavior is db-1.86.  Here is a test program:
> 
> This is a well known misbehaviour of Windows 95.
> AFAIK there is nothing at the moment, you can do about it.

FYI, this has just been fixed in the current Cygwin32 development
sources and will be in future versions of the DLL.

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Geoffrey Noer
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