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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ksh on cygwin
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:55:02 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>

> Now, the pagesize on Windows is 4K.  If the file size is
coincidentally
> 4096 or 8192 or any other multiple of 4K, gcc knows that it has to
> fallback to it's "slow" method since getpagesize() has returned the
> correct value.  If we change getpagesize() to return the granularity
> (64K) instead of the pagesize, gcc would wrongly assume that the
> file doesn't exactly match the pagesize so it would assume that
> it can use the "fast" method and would expect a trailing 0 byte.

Now I get it! Thanks.

Rob


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