On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:47:59PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
This announcement should probably be accompanied with a detailed
description of what package maintainers need to do in cygwin-apps to
deal with 64 bit file I/O. Anyone want to draft that?
I wrote down a start. The description how the package maintainers
should work together to get new 1.5.0 versions done is still lacking
detail I guess.
What is that 64 bit babble?
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Up to release 1.3.x, Cygwin had some limitations which were induced
by too small datatypes:
off_t was 32 bit, so not allowing to seek more than 2 Megs and to