Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: cbjones-1.corpeast.baynetworks.com: cbjones set sender to cbjones@nortelnetworks.com using -f To: Earnie Boyd Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities References: <20010220090609.N908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A92B762.8265E808@yahoo.com> From: "Christopher Jones" Date: 20 Feb 2001 15:54:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Earnie Boyd's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:28:50 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Earnie Boyd writes: > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:34:42AM +0100, Markus Hammele wrote: > > > > Is it possible, that the file utilities can't display file sizes > > > > bigger than 2 (4) GB. At least this is what happened here? > > > > > > Yes. Cygwin is using 32 bit all around. > > > > The posix C api for Windows defines a number of 64 bit file routines. > > If someone wanted, they could change cygwin to use these, right? > > > > No, not right. You could possibly modify the Cygwin API to use 64 bit > file routines but you can't use routines from a different runtime. Thanks, I was right. "change cygwin" == "modify the Cygwin API" Brian -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple