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From: Jay K <jay DOT krell AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: RE: upper limit to df reported available size?
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:51:00 +0000
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 >  I guess what we really need
 > is to redefine fsblkcnt_t to become a 64 bit type. Oh well, this
 > requires another backward compatibility hack, just like back when we
 > switched to 64 bit off_t (Cygwin 1.5). Let's do it at the same time as
 > we change sigset_t and time_t to 64-bits(with knock-on effects to
 > struct stat, among others). In other words,all good changes, but certain=
ly
 > something that will take a lot ofplanning to pull off in one go.
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Can you fix the jmp_buf size then too maybe?
It is blown up by a factor of 4.
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00863.html
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I realize it has less/no value to fixing.
But I'm not sure how changing the others won't require *everything*
(just about) to be recompiled anyway. Maybe you rename functions somehow?
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Thanks,
 - Jay

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