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Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h cygserve ...
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:37:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h cygserve ...
- References: <20120813200439.28566.qmail@sourceware.org> <502962A4.3030507@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Aug 13 14:25, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 02:04 PM, corinna@cygwin.com wrote:
> > Log message:
> > * include/cygwin/stat.h (struct __stat64): Drop entirely in favor of
> > struct stat. Accommodate throughout Cygwin.
>
> How close are we to having a 'struct stat' with room for 64-bit time_t?
You'll get it "for free" on 64 bit Cygwin since time_t is defined as long.
On 32 bit it requires a lot of backward compatibility changes which I'm
not comfortable anymore to put any development time into. SHTDI/PTC, as
usual.
Corinna
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