From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: lseek past EOF doesn't append zeros under Windows 95 20 Jun 1998 20:42:54 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD9C8B.7D1AD6A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'David Fox'" Cc: "beshers@cs.columbia.edu" David Fox wrote: > The documentation for lseek states > > The lseek function allows the file offset to be set beyond > the end of the existing end-of-file of the file. If data > is later written at this point, subsequent reads of the > data in the gap return bytes of zeros (until data is actu- > ally written into the gap). > > but under Windows 95 the cygwin32 package does not behave this > way. The gap is filled with garbage. One package that depends It's a well-known bug of Windows 95. Cygwin doesn't care about gaps, it's the task of underlying OS. The problem doesn't exists on NT. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".