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 Message-ID: <3A92FAB0.97D34060@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:16:00 -0700 From: Warren Young Organization: -ENOENT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: GNU File Utilities References: <20010220090609.N908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A92B762.8265E808@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Jones wrote: > > > 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" Actually, you can't do that, either. Under WinNT, a program can only be using one "runtime" at once. Since Cygwin uses a _bunch_ of stuff from the Win32 runtime, it'd be easier to port the program to use the POSIX API instead of porting Cygwin to the POSIX runtime. Besides which, porting to the POSIX runtime would break Win9x compatibility. Not a massively horrible thing, I know, but it would annoy a whole lotta people. -- _ = 'Net Address: http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent | / \ ASCII Ribbon = ICBM Address: 36.82740N, 108.02040W, alt. 1714m | \ / Campaign = | X Against = Chance favors the prepared mind. | / \ HTML Mail -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple