Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <416DA611.6BB44544@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:02:57 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lseek 2GB wrap problem (with tail)? [need textutils repackage] References: <416D56A0.5000402@informatik.uni-kl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Alexander Geraldy wrote: > I've seen the following problem and don't know how to handle it. > > Configuration: Cygwin 1.5.11-1, tail (textutils) 2.0.21, strace (cygwin) > 1.21 Unfortunately, it looks like the textutils package has gone unmaintained. The last release of it was in Feb of 2002: Cygwin did not have 64 bit file IO support until the 1.5.x series, from July 2003, meaning this package was compiled against 1.3.x and will choke on the 2GB barrier. It could be as simple as rebuilding it and releasing a new package. Someone should really look into this, and I've CC'd cygwin-apps to see if there's any interest. File under "Cygwin really needs a proper coreutils maintainer to take over these dead packages." Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/