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Re: GNU File Utilities

Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> writes:

> Christopher Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> 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

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