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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:22:04 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Christopher Jones <cbjones AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities
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Christopher Jones wrote:
> 
> Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> 
> > Christopher Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:34:42AM +0100, Markus Hammele wrote:
> > > > > Is it possible, that the file utilities can't display file sizes
> > > > > bigger than 2 (4) GB. At least this is what happened here?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. Cygwin is using 32 bit all around.
> > >
> > > The posix C api for Windows defines a number of 64 bit file routines.
> > > If someone wanted, they could change cygwin to use these, right?
> > >
> >
> > No, not right.  You could possibly modify the Cygwin API to use 64 bit
> > file routines but you can't use routines from a different runtime.
> 
> Thanks, I was right.  "change cygwin" == "modify the Cygwin API"
> 

No, you said, "change cygwin" == "Use the posix C api for Windows".  You
can't do that, you have to create new api's for Cygwin.

Earnie.

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