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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:51:45 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin and >4GB file support
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In-Reply-To: <OFB6484103.93679D3D-ONC1256A86.003211E9@ars.de>; from Rommel@ARS.de on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:09:09AM +0200

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:09:09AM +0200, Kai-Uwe Rommel wrote:
> Are there plans to change Cygwin to support 64-bit file sizes in the
> C runtime library?
> 
> This would require changing off_t to "long long" and using the
> appropriate Win32 API functions to support this.
> 
> Kai Uwe Rommel

There are no plans to do that. That wouldn't only require a change
of off_t but many careful changes in Cygwin and newlib to not break
backwards compatibility. Intermediate steps like off64_t stuff etc.
are neccessary. 

No plans means: Nobody at RH is working on that or is scheduled to
work on that or is planned to be scheduled to work on that at a
later time.

If people volunteer to add that (like people added that to Linux) we
would of course support that. And help in our spare time. And be happy.

Corinna

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