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Re: ftruncate64() question?
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:24:22PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>> What's wrong with ftruncate?
>
>ftruncate fails with files larger >= 2GB because off_t gets interpreted as
>32 bit signed integer...
bash-2.05b$ cat off_t.c
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
printf ("sizeof(off_t) = %d\n", sizeof(off_t));
exit (0);
}
bash-2.05b$ ./off_t
sizeof(off_t) = 8
>I can find some archived cygwin messages referencing bug fixes to
>ftruncate64 in the cygwin.dll. However, using ftruncate64 results in an
>unresolved symbol.
You don't use ftruncate64. You use ftruncate. Cygwin is 64 bit by default.
>In fact based on those messages, I inserted the following code in my
>program as a workaround for a truncate64() function:
How about referencing these messages so we'd have some clue as to what
you're talking about?
cgf
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