From: fox@cat.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: lseek past EOF doesn't append zeros under Windows 95 21 Jun 1998 11:58:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6wFg4SiKpfB@mike.franken.de> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) writes: > Hi David, > > [...] > >but under Windows 95 the cygwin32 package does not behave this > >way. The gap is filled with garbage. One package that depends > >on the zeroing behavior is db-1.86. Here is a test program: > > This is a well known misbehaviour of Windows 95. > AFAIK there is nothing at the moment, you can do about it. It is not a misbehavior of Windows 95; Windows 95 makes no promises about the contents of a file when you seek past its end. Even if it did, it is also a misbehavior of Cygwin to fail to account for the actual behavior of Windows 95. And there is something to do about it, I posted the basis of a fix in another message. -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".